That’s because the government absolutely cannot compensate for so many families either dysfunctional or failing. Our nation, based on the impossible national debt, engaging in endless foreign wars, and having top brass expressing indecision in our wars, well, that’s not good conditions to be proud of.
The First Amendment carves out special protections for religious belief and expression. That does not mean, of course, that Christian homophobes can discriminate as much as they want provided they quote the Bible. It does mean, at least for a while, courts and legislatures will strike compromises balancing gay rights and religious liberty, something they did not have to do with black civil rights.