It occurs to me that pretty much everyone who voted for the noxious Proposition 8 did so because of religious beliefs. Was there ever a more clear-cut example of religion treading in the public arena, imposing its values on the populous at large? Of course, the religious used the same argument when voting Yes, saying that the homosexuals were imposing their special agenda on the rest of the state. But of course, the marriage of a couple doesn’t have any impact on their neighbors (except when they fight and the police visit the neighborhood, something that tends to happen in the best heterosexual trailer parks out there).
Every single interview with a Yes on 8 voter I’ve heard indicates that this was a religious referendum, and that’s blatantly wrong.
First things first: because churches have decided to push into the political arena with such force in the last decade, I think it’s time to revoke their tax exemption. And of course, this is one of the things they were saying in their ads, that they’d lose their tax exemption if they refused to perform same-sex marriages (what a crock) — so you see, the churches are all about money.
I’m not talking about the churches that actually do the charitable work that Jesus would approve of. You know, the ones who take care of the less fortunate? I mean, as much as I hate Catholic dogma inserting itself into politics, I have to admit that Catholics still include charitable work in their teachings. I’m not talking about the Quaker meeting house down the street or the regular churches who recognize that Jesus himself would have voted NO on this odious discrimination.
No, I’m talking about the Mormons, who, from Utah, have poured tens of millions of dollars into California to impose their hypocritical thoughts on marriage on California. I’m talking about the mega-churches that raise millions of dollars from their members to pay for enormous buildings with state-of-the-art video and audio and Cadillacs for charismatic pastors.
These people are not real Christians. They know nothing of what Jesus tried to teach us and they don’t think of the rest of humanity as their brothers and sisters — only the people who agree with their tiny thoughts, only what they are told to think by power-hungry leaders. As I listened to a mega-church pastor this morning on the radio claim that the Holy Bible was the book of love, I had two thoughts: first, that the Bible does, ultimately, preach love and how could he deny it to anyone; and second, that the Bible is not the constitution of California.
