Let me tell you a story about bigotry. I wrote an article late last year about a school teacher in Oklahoma who is also a United Methodist pastor in north Texas. I wrote the article because the parents of a fifth grade boy contacted me to tell me the teacher/minister was calling children, including their son, fags in class and organizing games of tag the fag on the playground.

I wrote a couple articles exposing that conduct and quoting many people in the school system talking about how homophobia and racism are big problems in the district.

In the course of writing the second article I tried very very hard to get any kind of a quote from the leaders of the church the man pastors and from the North Texas United Methodist conference. All I wanted was for someone to say that it's wrong and harmful to call children fags.

I called and called and called and called and called and called and called and called, including calling the church on a Sunday so somebody would answer the phone. A deacon answered and became explosively angry at me for asking why the pastor calls children fags.

The church consistently refused comment, and the North Texas conference consistently refused comment, stonewalling me even when I had them on the phone. The Christian woman I talked to was so thoroughly evil and vile that she could not bring herself to say it's wrong to call children fags.

I reached out to an influential Christian friend who put me in touch with an influential Methodist, who least answered my email. But he categorically refused to give me a quote saying that it's wrong to call children fags.

How astonishing is all that? How evil is all that? How disgusting is it?

I write primarily about LGBTQ issues, and because of that, I end up writing a lot about Christians and Christianity. I was raised in a Baptist church, I was rejected by that Baptist church because I'm gay, and I spent the AIDS crisis fighting for treatment and prevention efforts the United States resisted because of homophobia.

I was fighting with Act Up, and guess who our most consistent enemies were every day? Christians. Always Christians, especially the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, but Evangelical Christians as well.

I've had an up close and very personal seat to the reality that most Christians are thoroughly horrible people. Most Christians are judgmental, foul, and dismissive of those who aren't like them. Most Christians in the United states, going by multiple polls, wish to pass laws to hurt people like me, to impose their horrible religion on people who don't share it.

I don't know why that is, but I can only presume that something about the core of Christianity is just disgusting. How else to explain that most Christians are disgusting people?

So, when somebody like you comes along and whines about anti-Christian bigotry, I have zero sympathy. Birds of a feather flock together, so I think that you're probably a pretty disgusting person. I don't know anything about you, but the numbers are on my side.

I'm aware of strains of progressive Christianity, and I'm happy they exist. I know that a tiny minority of Christians are good and decent people who don't use theology and the Bible to hurt people who are not like them. I work with one such Christian every day editing Prism & Pen. Sometimes I write articles defending progressive Christian churches. I did so just recently when a church in Ohio was fire bombed over a drag show fundraiser.

None of that erases my knowledge that most Christians are thoroughly horrible people. I've lived that knowledge, and nothing can erase it or make it go away. Most Christians are just awful.

If you have a problem with anti-Christian sentiment, then I suggest you start doing something about how awful most Christians are.

Christianity in the United States is evil and rotten to the core. That's not a bigoted statement, that's a truthful statement. If you don't like it, then be part of the change.