1. The freedom to choose one’s faith or no faith at all.

2. The choice of these actions I will list are repugnant to a faith, but ultimately are beneficial to society and have been, even if at first once thought of or still carry some risk.

3. That these beliefs and those things that are rejected STILL coexist in a free society.

These are:

1. Autopsy

2. Contraception and contraceptive sex.

3. Organ and blood and tissue donation

4. Dancing

We can argue that homosexuality is an acceptable sexual orientation for many reasons, most of all because there ARE no risks that a few of the others have carried, and it’s a factor in human sexuality that predates any of the organized religions.
We can argue that contraceptive sex carries none of the risk factors or expense of child bearing.

We can argue that other members of society engage in those activities without systemic bigotry and discrimination because of it.
And those activities are all a choice, but sometimes required as a matter of the health and well being of individuals.

Our society accepts a LOT of things that are completely at odds with ‘nature’s course’ in context to religious belief, but as we have allowed ourselves to know: believers can’t force someone else from engaging in it freely as it harms no one else to do so.
Period.

I challenge each and every religious person to tell me what I have said isn’t true and that they don’t contradict themselves, especially on the factor of COEXISTENCE of these activities, REGARDLESS of belief.

As you all might imagine, that’s when the opposition will pretend I never said it and it wasn’t the truth.

The money they spend stripping our rights and blocking equality could be spent on real problems. Actually, if there wasn’t this battle, both sides could be working together, spending less money, getting more accomplished, fighting real threats to our country and our citizens. …then the world!

Then again, christians have used the Bible to support slavery, the oppression of women, and worse. This isn’t new behavior for them.

Too bad the anti-gay “ministries” have to mislead and lie to keep those contributions rolling in. And I make a prediction: when the day finally comes that GLBTT people achieve full equality and the “culture war” against us is dead in the water, those same ministries will pick up a different cause to send-me-your-best-gift-today rail against.

They have no other reason for existence.

Given the sickness and poverty and divorce and crime and war all over this nation and world, you’d think they’d have better things to do with their time.