I'd be more inclined to support the pro side...

 

Paul Flynn wrote: 
There is a looming cultural and legal war between pro-homosexual-rights activists and those of many religious faiths (Christians/Jews/Buddhist/Islam). I'd be more inclined to support the 'pro' side if I haven't seen time and time again their amazing lack of tolerance for those who disagree with them. And anyway religious liberty actually IS enshrined in our Constitution, unlike the 'right to marry whomever you please' as so many judges are newly discovering.

I wrote:
I'm pretty sure your framing is not helpful, if what you are interested in tolerance for those who disagree with you. "War" doesn't seem to me to be the best metaphor for the struggle lived out by those who believe various versions of "I"/you/we should enjoy the same freedom we/you/they enjoy." Characterizing those being systemically discriminated against and unconstitutionally restricted from general civil liberties as wanting legality and morality to be "Whatever you please" is the classic position of those who also often attempt to speak for "many religious faiths", thereby inaccurately characterizing faith traditions/religions as monolithic and in agreement in opposition to whatever they imagine to be threatened (racial segregation, gender roles, class divisions, etc.). I agree that is it a cultural and legal process of change, but hardly looming, unless one has been out of the loop of cultural change for the last fifty years. I hereby challenge you to opt out of the "I'd be more inclined to support the 'pro' side if..." position, also endemic to each and every other civil rights struggle. Go ahead and follow your inclination to support anyone working for justice entirely free of the need to judge them for their typical and understandable human tendency to be too judgmental. :-)