What I’ve heard less of is what has happened when Westboro Baptists (baptized in what, skunk spray?) are faced off by actual street preachers.
Homosexuality isn’t the only issue that God cares about, believe it or not. Nor is His power to contain it and other sins dependent on American government such that it would be chiefly blamed as much as it would be dependent on church attitudes. A “We The People” government does suggest a broader blame, but then how are the Westboro folks excluded? Have they produced a single solitary ex-gay in all their years? If so I haven’t ever heard about them saying so. In older days, it was a virtually united Christian moral belief that militated against this problem, not so much the fear of laws that couldn’t possibly police the vast majority of incidents anyhow. In fact, sex sins are so hard to police that even the strict Old Testament ritual civil law required “two or three witnesses” to carry out the associated death penalty. And these witnesses had to be credible, or the stoning would come their own way. And they had to carry out the stoning themselves. It was a far cry from the regime we knew while sodomy was last illegal. The broad implication here seems to be that the closet will get a pass, and only notorious activity (one which is willing to have witnesses) will suffer (but then, oh will it suffer).
I’d certainly, if a street preacher, face off with Westboro Baptists and ask them what they have ever done to deliver a single person from homosexuality (which the bible states is eminently in the picture). And if they cannot do this, then they should shut up, they are not making things any better.