A small victory?

If everything goes as expected, a gay marriage bill will pass in Washington, D.C. tomorrow. The mayor has already promised to sign it and things are looking good. Of course this  will not fly with the National Organization for Marriage or the Catholic Church among others, and they have vowed to fight tooth and nail. Susan Gibbs, speaking for the Archdiocese of Washington, said this:

Being gay is not against church teaching, but we do understand marriage in a specific way, and we need to be able to follow that belief.

Well Susan, I don't understand how one can think an image of a bloody corpse nailed to a piece of wood makes for good interior decorating, but you don't see me petitioning Congress to ban it. It's your right.
What really gets me is the doublespeak. Just come out and say it. You think homosexuals are evil. All this talk of 'it's not a sin to be gay, just if you act on it' does not make you tolerant. It's like a high school kid who thinks it's Ok to tell a joke about lynching a black person if he prefaces it with "I'm not racist or anything..."
Besides, it can cut both ways. With the increasing number of equality laws, like the one recently backed by the LDS Church here in Salt Lake, more and more it's not illegal to be a bigot, but it is illegal if you act on it.