"Bashing" is a hate crime, based on ignorance, like what these people are doing to gays. Standing up against an agressor, to defend your right, or the rights of others, to be happy in their own way, in defence of a group that have done nothing to deserve agression, is not bashing. It's our moral obligation. If the Catholic Church or anyone else wants to dish hate they have to expect the return. Defence of love in return for hate. Whose the villan here?