Social issues like marriage that can be easily legislated about are much easier to deal with than systemic problems like poverty, therefore people will give more attention to the social issues. It's just an example of bike-shedding. Talk about the small scale things you can control rather than the large complex issues that are more intimidating.
But attitudes about marriage and sexuality are really very small and insignificant aspects of religion as a whole. Politics and culture war have inflamed certain issues in America, but those issues will resolve themselves in time.
Once they do people will have less of a reason to be mad at religion. What I'm cautioning against is conflating frustration towards religious attitudes about particular things that are slowly changing in the present with thr idea that there is something fundamentally wrong about religion itself.
If you made a mistake about something, I wouldn't automatically assume you yourself are broken. I would just help correct you then wish you the best.
But attitudes about marriage and sexuality are really very small and insignificant aspects of religion as a whole. Politics and culture war have inflamed certain issues in America, but those issues will resolve themselves in time.
Once they do people will have less of a reason to be mad at religion. What I'm cautioning against is conflating frustration towards religious attitudes about particular things that are slowly changing in the present with thr idea that there is something fundamentally wrong about religion itself.
If you made a mistake about something, I wouldn't automatically assume you yourself are broken. I would just help correct you then wish you the best.