The Washington Post has a scary look at the Christian right, profiling Tradition Values Coalition leader Lou Sheldon and his equally hateful (if more polished) daughter, Andrea. Here's how they and their allies view things:
"Pearl Harbor," [Lou Sheldon] says, surveying Tuesday's front pages. "What Pearl Harbor did to American patriotism, May 17 should do to the Christian level of awareness."
Many evangelical leaders saw May 17 as a kind of Armageddon. James Dobson of Focus on the Family said, "Barring a miracle, the family as it has been known for more than five millennia will crumble." R. Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention compared the day to Sept. 11, 2001, and called it a "moral disaster."
But when confronted with the unexpected lack of passion by the
evangelical grass roots over this matter, and congressional
momentum for the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment that seems to
be "fizzling," Sheldon obfuscates:
[O]nce gay couples start coming home from Massachusetts and demanding recognition of their marriages by their own states, Sheldon figures America will wake up. "It's a sleeping giant out there," he says. "We're talking about tens of millions of people. And when they wake up I feel bad for the homosexuals."
An ugly sentiment, just as you'd expect.