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The problem here is the vast number of "Christians" who really know nothing about their own religion. Christianity has, by and large, become a matter of mimicking others and lost its value as a personal belief systems. This means that for a great many people, they have never thought much about they believe, they simply accepted what was told to them. So, when their beliefs about what is natural and right are challenged, they have no recourse. They experience the full brunt of cognitive dissonance, and they don't like it, so they lash out.
As one would say judge not a book by its cover, so I say judge not the religion by its followers. The tenents of Christianity are sound, but the modern interpretations of them are not. This is why I call myself a Christian Gnostic and not simply a Christian.
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