“This article raises more questions than it answers. I’ll wait for the scholars steeped in the historic stream of Christianity and “apologetics” to inform me how this touches on free speech and, more specifically, how exactly (come again?) it reverses elements of the Civil Rights Act of 1967.”
Look at what these laws have done and are being used for in England and Canada. That is a pretty clear indicator of where we are headed. Where pastors are jailed for their sermon. Where people are fined for quoting the Bible. That is the goal for these activists.
Forget about condemning public officials who have sex in public restrooms when these laws are passed. Any reference to homosexuality in anything other than a positive context will be a jailable offense. Its happening in other countries and is coming to your neighborhood soon.
Or in Philadelphia, where those preaching on the sideline of a Gay Pride Parade were arrested and bonded over for trial... what ever happened to those folks, anyway?