The leftists are going to create a religious test to hold office, apparently
I am afraid you're right. I don't think it will work, but I think that is precisely what some want.
I'm also glad I live in Missouri, and in a very conservative county in Missouri where even most of our local Democrats are conservatives, rather than living in a more liberal state or county.
Case in point — I never said anything on Free Republic and kept the issue local, but last summer I got subjected to an attack by homosexual activists which backfired badly and actually helped me a lot locally, with no discernible negative effects at all beyond taking up a lot of my time. Even some of our local homosexuals got mad at the radical activists. The homosexuals who came to my defense believed — correctly — that the attacks on me, generally from newcomers to our area, were making local homosexuals look bad who had tried for years to live quiet lives.
I think most conservatives who believe in limited government aren't very interested in telling two men or two women what they can do in private on their own property, but it's also clear the radicals want more than toleration. They want acceptance and probably even more than that.
The homosexual community is itself divided between “in your face” people and those who want to be left alone. The extremists in the homosexual community are not doing their cause any favors outside places which are already quite far left-wing.
Time will tell what happens. I don't think our country is ready to see bakers, florists, and pizza places put out of business for refusing to cater to homosexual weddings — at least not yet. In my county, once it became clear the radicals had made a major mistake and their tactics were causing people to rally to my support, I actually got accused of creating the controversy to gain support. (Zero truth to that; if I'd wanted the controversy to blow up nationally, I would have posted on Free Republic last summer, and I was quite happy to see the controversy go away.)
But it's also clear that a majority in some parts of our country is quite willing to do that sort of thing.
I'm glad I don't live in one of those places.