"They want something they aren’t getting or they wouldn’t be pushing this so hard. I hate to think about what that might be."

Indeed, and it's not just atheists who see this and worry about. I watched video the other day of a county library board meeting in which the chairman explained that library branches may not sponsor LGBT book clubs despite sponsoring many other book clubs.

Christians, he claimed, would feel offended by that, to the point of feeling unwelcome in the library branches.

I think that's untrue. I can't imagine any Christian actually feeling like they couldn't go into a library because the library sometimes sponsors an LGBTQ book club.

But the veracity of his claim aside, he's a government official perfectly willing to set public policy based on his private religious beliefs — to the detriment and exclusion of people with different beliefs from his.

That's the danger. It's happening now, all over the U.S., because in many places, the "dream" of a Christian nation is actually real.

Ask any queer person. We'll tell you exactly how real it is.