I am basically a ‘live and let live kind of guy. I believe
what I believe and you may agree, or not, and that’s okay. That’s how I think
about religion, too; I’m not a big believer, but if you are, well, that’s your
right. I won’t try and change your mind, please don’t try and change mine.
The
one problem I do have with religion is those people that use their faith in God
to practice hate, and I’m not just talking about the ‘God Hates Fags’ Westboro Baptist
Church people. I don’t mind those people, actually, because you know what you’re
gonna get from them.
But I do have an issue with those people who use the Bible
to tell me that God doesn’t want me to marry Carlos, or that God thinks I’m not
capable of parenting a child; or that God thinks I shouldn’t be able to live
there or work there, or walk down that street, or, sadly so, even be allowed to
live.
I have a problem with those ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’ people who
say they don’t hate but then work overtime trying to prove otherwise.
People like Bryan Fischer of the American
Family Association; that’s one of those oh-so-sweet sounding groups that seek
to deny me my rights because God said so. Bryan Fischer hates gay people,
and he can’t mask it as a Biblical belief. It’s hate. It’s fear. It’s loathing.
It might even be self-loathing, because Fischer spends an awful lot of his time
thinking about gay men and sex, and then runs to his computer to Tweet about
it.
Like this week when he Tweeted
that we—well, not me because I’m, apparently, the problem—need a sort of “Underground
Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households.” Now, it seems
that he was referring to the story of Lisa Miller, a so-called ex-gay,
kidnapped the daughter she had with her same-sex partner and disappeared.
Miller is still being track by federal authorities for kidnapping, but people
like Fischer call her a hero.
But then Fischer takes his theory
of kidnapping children from gay parent households further, by including the
story of one Robert Oscar Lopez, who blames all the ills of his life on the
fact that he had two moms. Lopez thinks he wouldn’t be an outcast in the world
today if he’d grown up in a “normal” home. Lopez thinks that his own sexual orientation
issues are his mothers’ fault.
And both of these stories have
lead Bryan Fischer, that self-proclaimed man of God, to suggest that the
children of same-sex parents should be stolen from them, and taken through some
kind of Anti-Gay Underground Railroad to safety in the arms of a one-man/one-woman
home. He is equating the children of same-sex parents with slaves, and equating
same-sex parents with slave owners.
He is using God to promote hate.
He is using God to advocate criminal behavior. Remember that if you ever hear
one story about the child, or children, of a same-sex couple being kidnapped.
Think of who to blame.
Think of Bryan Fischer and his
special brand of God Hates Fags.
Let's park this in his backyard. Apply the same logic to couples of different religions.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm curious about is what happens when/if one of those "rescued" children end up in the hands of a religious child molester or child abuser? Where do they go then? And what happens if the "rescued" child doesn't want to be "rescued"?
ReplyDeleteCan you believe this sh*t? Surely, ravings like this will get him on all the government watch lists that he's not already a part of.
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't "inciting kidnapping", somehow, a criminal offense. He's aiding and abetting to some degree, right?
WTeverlovinF? kidnapping is a federal offense!
ReplyDeleteReligion is the root of all evil.
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