What's wrong with this sign?

In my opinion, nothing. It’s about as mild a statement of Catholic theology on marriage as you’re going to come across.

Alas, it wasn’t mild enough for some the local Acushnet, MA “tolerance thugs,” who called the church, screamed profanity at them and threatened to burn St. Francis Xavier down.

St. Francis Xavier Pastor Msgr. Gerard P. O'Connor said the church has been receiving “hate mail.”

O'Connor played an expletive-laced voicemail from a woman saying the church “should be burned.”

And note this reaction:

Kim Miska, one of two women protesting outside the church Wednesday morning, took a different tack.

“I think it was bigoted ... very ignorant,” she said. “You can believe in what you want to believe in, but there's no reason to shove it down everybody's throat.”

Excuse me? Since when did posting a sign at a church become “shoving it down everybody’s throat?”  And given the subject, is throat-shoving really the metaphor we want to use?

I assume this church posts signs at Easter saying “Christ is Risen!”  and at Christmas reading “The Savior is Born!” Does this woman complain that they’re shoving Catholicism “down everyone’s throat?”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this sign. But there is something wrong with the kind of person who would protest it. What’s your point—that people shouldn’t be allowed to publicly express, however mildly, views with which you do not agree?

Lighten up, Francis. And put the matches away.

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