Compassion & Choice then targeted neighboring Washington State because folks out there are more likely to revere nature than God. Only 33% of Washingtonians are members of a church, slightly above Oregon's 31 percent - half that of New York, New Mexico or Arkansas.

But few, if any, especially in the media, have given the public the "whole story" about churches and their persistent efforts to protect what they believe is God's definition of marriage.

"I've not seen any attempt [by the mass media] to understand or communicate the real concern of Christians concerning gay marriage," said Bob Stith, who heads the Ministry to Homosexuals Task Force in the Southern Baptist Convention - the largest Protestant denomination in the country.

Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them.

Dr. Steele, an African-American, is himself a veteran participant in and commentator on the Civil Rights years of the 1960's and 1970's. In "White Guilt" he tells his own heart-rending story of development into what he calls, somewhat bitterly, a black conservative. He describes the loneliness and the irony of that identity.