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I suppose that Christians nationwide must be dancing a jig after the California Supreme Court effectively ruled that Christian dogma concerning same-sex unions must be upheld as the law of the land. As of yesterday, California is officially a Christian Theocracy, not a secular democracy.
I find it to be a very dangerous outcome that the Supreme Court upheld. The precident it sets is simple: from now on, the majority of people can decide in what ways members of very small minorities can conduct their lives. The majority now has the power to strip members of unpopular minorities of their civil rights entirely.
Consider this: hatred of homosexuals has become an integrated component in the Christian declaration of faith. According to Christian dogma, homosexuals are forever cut off from Heaven and are hated by the Angry Desert God. The holy book of the Desert War God (aka the Bible) clearly states that God approves of the murder of homosexuals. Thus, how long will it be before Christians take to the ballot box again with more punitive ballot initiatives to cow and humiliate the people they decry as "perverts" and "abominations"?
I foresee the Christian community taking ever greater steps to punish gays. They will likely push for a ballot initiative to criminalize sodomy (for gays only, off course. Sodomy between a lawfully married man aand wife will be excluded from punishment). Once homosexual behavior is criminalized, it's only a matter of time before the Christians present a ballot initiative concerning how we gays should be punished.
They will, of course, recommend nothing less than death. It's in the Bible, therefore they will consider themselves to be failing in their obediance to the Angry Desert God if they don't find a way to craft legislation that will bring gays to the extermination camps.
If you think that can't happen, you should think again. In the 1930s and 1940s, Germany was (and still is) a primarily Christian nation. These family-values Lutherans willingly turned a blind eye when the SS came at 2:00AM to collect all the known homosexuals. Yes, the Christians saw fit to kill off the gays before they went after the Jews. It could so easily happen in this country. The Far Right would declare our destruction as an example of democracy in action. They would pride themselves on doing God's will.
It just terrifies me that people who know nothing about me can, from the secrecy of a ballot box, make laws to hurt me. It's a scary thing to understand that people like me are only two ballot initiatives away from being put in a death camp.
Christianity is a dangerous, hateful religion populated by dangerous, hateful people that serve a dangerous, hateful god.
[ add comment ] ( 4 views ) permalink I suppose that Christians nationwide must be dancing a jig after the California Supreme Court effectively ruled that Christian dogma concerning same-sex unions must be upheld as the law of the land. As of yesterday, California is officially a Christian Theocracy, not a secular democracy.
I find it to be a very dangerous outcome that the Supreme Court upheld. The precident it sets is simple: from now on, the majority of people can decide in what ways members of very small minorities can conduct their lives. The majority now has the power to strip members of unpopular minorities of their civil rights entirely.
Consider this: hatred of homosexuals has become an integrated component in the Christian declaration of faith. According to Christian dogma, homosexuals are forever cut off from Heaven and are hated by the Angry Desert God. The holy book of the Desert War God (aka the Bible) clearly states that God approves of the murder of homosexuals. Thus, how long will it be before Christians take to the ballot box again with more punitive ballot initiatives to cow and humiliate the people they decry as "perverts" and "abominations"?
I foresee the Christian community taking ever greater steps to punish gays. They will likely push for a ballot initiative to criminalize sodomy (for gays only, off course. Sodomy between a lawfully married man aand wife will be excluded from punishment). Once homosexual behavior is criminalized, it's only a matter of time before the Christians present a ballot initiative concerning how we gays should be punished.
They will, of course, recommend nothing less than death. It's in the Bible, therefore they will consider themselves to be failing in their obediance to the Angry Desert God if they don't find a way to craft legislation that will bring gays to the extermination camps.
If you think that can't happen, you should think again. In the 1930s and 1940s, Germany was (and still is) a primarily Christian nation. These family-values Lutherans willingly turned a blind eye when the SS came at 2:00AM to collect all the known homosexuals. Yes, the Christians saw fit to kill off the gays before they went after the Jews. It could so easily happen in this country. The Far Right would declare our destruction as an example of democracy in action. They would pride themselves on doing God's will.
It just terrifies me that people who know nothing about me can, from the secrecy of a ballot box, make laws to hurt me. It's a scary thing to understand that people like me are only two ballot initiatives away from being put in a death camp.
Christianity is a dangerous, hateful religion populated by dangerous, hateful people that serve a dangerous, hateful god.
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