I don’t think the person who was commenting on my story promo link was making a generalized statement. I think in context his statement obviously meant that Christians are among the worst offenders when in comes to firing or otherwise hurting LGBTQ people. Which is simply true. LGBTQ people understand clearly that when we are around Christians, we are in danger. Yes, we know a small minority of Christians are different, but most Christians hate them for that difference. We know most Christians are horrible to us. We must be able to say that, even if we do it unartfully or in a way that would be misunderstood out of context.

Facebook’s overreaction is more the point of my story. Anyone reading that comment knew the commenter was writing about Christians who fire people for being gay. That was the evident point of his comment.

The disparate treatment is critical. Christians can and do say vicious things about us all the time. They call us sinners, assert we are immoral, and quote Biblical passages that call for our deaths. In the light of that, how can it be just or fair for LGBTQ people to be silenced when we accurately observe that Christians are the worst of our persecutors? That’s just true. It’s an undeniable fact of life (that nobody is unaware of ) that we must be free to talk about without fear of reprisal.