This is why I hate religion — not faith, but religion. The f*cking s**teating donkeyr*ping c*ckmaster fundamentalist nutcases like Jerry Falwell and Donald Wildmon, who are basically the leaders of cults, are calling for July 11th to be “Protect Marriage Day.” Because, they say, same-sex marriage could lead to:
“The words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ will be meaningless. . . . Our kids will be taught how to perform ‘safe sodomy’ in their sex education classes. . . . Churches will be pressured to either abandon the Scriptures or lose their tax exempt status if they refuse to ‘marry’ homosexuals.”
Huh? Kids will be taught “safe sodomy?”
These people are absolute lunatics with no sense of reality. They will do anything to maintain their power over the weak minded, and some of their flock who actually have a modicum of intelligence will soon realize that same-sex marriage has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on their own marriage or on their children.
I get so worked up over this subject, because it’s like tilting at windmills. The hate and bullshit that spews from the religious right is so insane that it’s pointless to try to counter it. How can you make a reasoned opposition to something that makes no sense in the first place?
At least a few religious groups are taking the right path — they realize that the push to amend the constitution is a religious one, and is inappropriate in a nation where church and state are separate.
Growing numbers of religious leaders, however, are weighing in on both sides of the issue. Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, yesterday endorsed the constitutional amendment and urged all Roman Catholics to lobby for its passage.
Twenty-six religious groups, meanwhile, have sent a letter to Congress opposing the amendment. “It is not the task of our government and elected representatives to enshrine in our laws the religious point of view of any one faith,” said the June 2 letter, whose signers included leaders of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Episcopal Church USA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Sikh Council on Religion and Education.
I don’t think it’s even a matter of religion, but funamentalism itself. Religion doesn’t make people give speeches like this or even fly planes into buildings- it’s the fundamentalists that cause all the problems.
If people could just do a little thinking for themselves and use some of that ‘free will’ then we’d have a much better place.