We are long past the days when a restaurant, hotel or store could summarily refuse to serve people on the basis of race or religion. Now it’s time to extend those protections to members of the LGBTQ community as well.

Clergy who spout the Religious Right line have dominated the political scene in Bible Belt states for a long time. But as demographics in the country shift, right-wing evangelicals are seeing their market share slip, even in places like Tennessee.

Bryan Fischer, a radio host for the American Family Association, responded to the terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people by asserting, "I hate Islam." He rambled that if government won't stop Islam, the natural result will be "vigilante justice."