As a decree to help protect us all, the separation of church and state is wonderful, but it doesn't demand the wholesale exclusion of religious conviction from influencing our sense of public policy, of right and wrong. For the greater good, we have legislated that certain behaviors, orientations, and unions are unacceptable because of their potential or definitively realized detriment to society. Pedophilia, bestiality, incest, and polygamy are examples, as is the age of sexual consent, which varies by state. These regulations have serious theological and religious underpinnings despite how they might be politicized today. We are all entitled to opinions about if and when scripture is pushed beyond the Biblical writers' original intent. There have always been and will be disagreements in this way. However, the sheer existence of a perspective different than our own is hardly adequate evidence to label someone a narrow-minded dogmatist regardless of which side of the fence they sit on. Homophobia is just as unacceptable as heterosexual derision.