"The Anglican church persecuted gays for being gay"
The Christian church stood by for decades, probably centuries, while their clergymen raped children - when that abuse became public knowledge, they moved the offending persecutor to places where they could persecute without hindrance.
The hierarchy of the church in question still refuse access to the documented information regarding that persecution.
"Christian" extremists, egged on by fanatical clergymen, encouraged inter-religious fighting which led to the deaths of many thousands of people in Northern Ireland.
No religion is any more trustworthy than another when it comes to religious persecution.
Do not trivialise the result of religious persecution by one sect in order to excuse that of another.
Jim Carroll