Yesterday, basketball center Jason Collins became the first professional American athlete to come out as gay while still active in a team sport. But this columnist says there are four ways many American Christians are getting this whole thing wrong.

1.  Equating “being gay” with “having sex

3. Treating gay people as symbols of a culture war instead of as human beings.

4. Assuming that being gay is a choice.   

                      (maybe the most important?)