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True enough, people and institutions can be set in their ways but I think it will happen, the LGBT's have been fighting in an intelligent manner for 30+ years to be recognized as human beings. They've done their job and the ice has cracked in many segments of society to not only accept them as members of society but also in many cases vital contributors to their communities. The Church (or I should say some segments of the church) have had a hand in fighting for those rights as it always has fought for the oppressed, downtrodden and maligned.... as they did in fighting for civil rights and equal treatment for blacks a generation ago. Now (2010) that seems like a no brainer and its hard to believe that people were legally treated as second class citizens because of their skin color not that long ago.. Change, for some reason always seems to come with great difficulty and is not without growing pains.I suppose that some will fight against it, as some fought to maintain racial segregation 50 years ago. For the life of me I cant figure out what threatens people so much about two people who love each other wanting to get married --but it surely seems to... Some major denominations are fully for full rights, others (for instance The Episcopalians and Anglicans) are split, either for or against, and their bodies fracturing over the issue. O well-- I think that it is inevitable that eventually it will happen and 50 years from now people will look back in astonishment to think that at one time it wasn't allowed. If things never changed we'd still be somewhere burning 'witches', although it takes way to long, thankfully--they do

The Bible clearly does not like drunkards. However getting drunk is harder to establish as a sin, and drinking is clearly not a sin. Overly zealous christians tried to push their agenda that drink was sin, they failed. And it never changed the Bible, so as hard as they desire drinking to be a sin, the Bible still praises drink. Homosexual sex is clearly pronounced to be a sin. It is never praised, nor allowed in the Bible. So I do not see how these two things can be compared.