Prop 8

"What it comes down to is the churches are not acting like instruments of love. They're hate machines. They're ignorance factories."

-Sean Penn, Rolling Stone, February 2009 issue (A quote regarding the Prop 8 issue).



I want to know, is this quote true today, more often than not?


P.S. Is it the church's job (or right) to tell people who they can or cannot marry? If the end goal is change, how does merely restricting someone against their will help anything? Is it anyone's right to decide who needs to change?

How does any of this fit in with the idea of being instruments of love?