Article online this morning about gay employees at Chick-fil-A. Their take, media-highlighted, was that this was the gay-haters' party time. That highlights to me that there is risk involved in activities in what we Lutherans call God's Realm of the Left. If the intent is to confront the over-the-top political correctnesses of the secular left prohibiting free speech in support of a moral issue, the result can be the perception in this case of gay-hating or gay-baiting.
When the Missouri Synod began its efforts in housing decades ago and the Nehemiah Plan ensued, since it was accomplished ecumenically with congregations involved in community organizing, what got lost to the religious/secular right at the edge of the Missouri Synod was that this was a great urban housing effort (that eventually spread across the country). What was perceived was that it was a crazy leftwing community organizing effort with the chief nut in charge being me. So those few folks tried to make ecumenical community organizing the issue, rather than the thousands of homes. They didn't carry the day, because the evidence of the homes where there had been devastation was too strong.
There was no instant media movement then. Today polarities are the order of the day and they spread like wildfire through the anti-social social media, so the risks are more readily exposed. I wouldn't think that anyone who posted "Yes" or "Would-if-I could" on this thread is a gay-hater or gay-baiter, and yet the risk of that perception is high.
Dave Benke