I've seen about enough of these conservative religious diatribes against 'ungodly deviance' (my words, not in the above article,) that I can just about codify and recite their objections in my sleep.
The author of the article quotes Matthew 22:36-40, then adds it means ALL human beings.
Then she starts in with the 'however's--
--the definition of harassment is too broad, and would stop us good christians from handing out tracts in the muslim part of town;
--no matter how gently we ask a homosexual to leave our congregation because we feel uncomfortable, they can say they were harassed and get the government to make us allow them to stay;
--if we don't promote homosexual practices, the government will take away our funding;
--the government will promote religious 'belief equality', preventing christmas cards and saying 'Merry Christmas' (included for completeness -kjs);
--the government would force us to recognize a man who had a sex-change operation as the female HE thinks HE is, violating our right to call a spade a spade and see the world according to (our) truths;
--furthermore, the government would force us to protect HIS identity -- even if we KNEW he had a sex-change operation, we would be FORCED to pretend HE is a 'she' or violate some dumb government privacy rules they gave HIM:
That's what I found in that one article. I find it a pretty comprehensive list. There are probably only a few other points of the Fundamentalist Agenda that can be included.
I hope the finding that the judge in Iowa who struck down the states' anti-same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment used works its way to the Supreme Court. It's tightly-argued and admits only evidence that passes a very rigorous test, so it will likely have to be dealt with point-by-point by the Fundamentalist Forces.
I'm looking forward to further developments.
Karen
