I've met many great climbing partners on this site.  Maybe the California dude was the asshole.  
  
If evangelical Christians in this country would just STFU and practice their religion without trying to violate the separation of church and state by imposing it on the rest of us through the political process, everyone else would be fine with it.  They don't, so they get the criticism they deserve.   Do you see the Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, or any other religious sect trying to pass their "God's laws"?  No.  It's only these fuckwads.    
  
They are an ant-Constitutional, and therefore anti-American fascist cult who bring whatever ridicule and opposition they seem to thrive on  upon themselves by trying to make the rest of us march to their fucked up tune.