Please, for tolerance and inclusion, are often pretext for intolerance and exclusion.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street, with the point.

If you don't like gay marriage, you don't get one. Remember that platitude?

Well, these days, it ought to say, if you don't like gay marriage, kiss your job goodbye.

At least that's what happened to UK mayoral candidate Maureen Martin last month.

Martin published a campaign leaflet describing her views, including

that, quote, natural marriage between a man and a woman is the building block for a successful

society and the safest environment for raising children, where LGBTQ activists swiftly complained

that this was hate speech, and Martin was fired from her day job at a housing association.

Now, no, she said nothing about gay people at all, or same-sex marriage.

All she did was state fundamental truths about the importance of man, woman, marriage to society.

Truths central to Christian faith, backed by evidence, and shared by millions.

Still, like Martin, Christians will have to speak to truths that might get us in trouble.

And we'll have to show any way we can that God's idea family is still the best.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.