White evangelicals see themselves as a marginalized community that suffers persecution but can’t empathize with legitimate marginalized and persecuted groups like the LGBTQ community, and migrants from Third World countries.

America is a predominately Christian nation where white people control all the levers of power: the government, the media, academia and the entertainment industry.

Evangelicals are in firm control of the Republican Party, and currently the GOP controls the Senate, the House, the White House, and the Supreme Court.

For white evangelicals to claim that they are a marginalized community that suffers persecution is the epitome of deceit and cynicism and a slap in the face to marginalized communities that face real persecution. It’s also an insult to Christians who face real persecution in Muslim countries and authoritarian regimes where they are in the minority.

Evangelicals feel emboldened to demonize and persecute LGBTQ people because the gays and lesbians in their pews are in the closet, and they know no one will come to their defense.

They will cherry-pick a verse from Leviticus to call for the extermination of gays while ignoring other patently ridiculous rules about eating shellfish.

If evangelicals walked just a mile in the stiletto heels of a drag queen they would stop brandishing the Bible as a weapon and realize that LGBT are also the children of God.