tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559967538513457270.post4656235250191776819..comments2023-05-25T08:54:01.742-07:00Comments on BroadSnark: Freedom to Marry Week: Whose Marriage does the Church Approve?Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14570361651510490524noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559967538513457270.post-3326233740006851272009-02-15T02:29:00.000-08:002009-02-15T02:29:00.000-08:00Screw the "Church" and screw the people who use re...Screw the "Church" and screw the people who use religion to enforce their BS on rest of this country.<BR/><BR/>Organized religion has always had a vile underlying taint from so often being primarily a means of manipulating people to accumulate money, power and social standing. <BR/><BR/>The entire conflict over gay marriage centers around conspicuously married, conspicuously religious people being hyper-aware of their social status through slavish adherence to the narrow social norms of their communities. <BR/><BR/>Granting some measure of moral equivalence by allowing gay people to marry would, by some transitive or associational property, "cheapen" their own pride in being so conspicuously married upright citizens. <BR/><BR/>What utterly ridiculous crap... how miserable must your life and psyche be to make preventing gay marriage a focus of your life.<BR/><BR/>I got my car surrounded and mobbed by the Aryan Youth... er, I mean whatever Proud Christian Youth Organization was demonstrating, around prop 8 time here in CA for yelling "Bigots go home!" out of my car window while in the drive-through adjacent to their demonstration corner. <BR/><BR/>Kinda fun cause I'll bang some heads if need be, but it really brought home how dangerous the hateful rhetoric of these religious "leaders" could be to people in other situations... a gay teen, a gay couple, someone that's a vulnerable target regardless of sexual orientation.wtfdaemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17894309966137581231noreply@blogger.com