I never said anything about limiting this to "UK groups" - religious extremism seems to care very little about national boundaries.
And your caricature of the US religious right's apparently highly successful campaign to get gay people forced into the ccloset, or into ex-gay programmes in Africa, under threat of imprisonment or death as "three Americans evangelicals went to Uganda" is frankly offensive and does you no credit.
The point remains that nobody is doing anything like this when it comes to divorce. Your implication that they're equally frowned upon is absurd. Any minor disapproval of divorced members of their own flock is in no way equivalent to the systematic and organised campaigns of abuse and persecution directed at LGBT people by Christian churches around the world, but especially in the US.
And regardless of whether that takes the form of highly damaging "reparative" "therapy", into which people are duped and coerced, active campaigns to deny us marriage rights, colonial lobbying in 3rd world countries to enshrine the persecution of LGBT people in law, or just plain going out, finding a few gay people and beating the crap out of them, if you had a shred of human decency and integrity to you, you'd at least try to do your bit to encourage your religion to own its shit over this, rather than playing dumb.
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Date: 2010-01-25 01:01 am (UTC)I never said anything about limiting this to "UK groups" - religious extremism seems to care very little about national boundaries.
And your caricature of the US religious right's apparently highly successful campaign to get gay people forced into the ccloset, or into ex-gay programmes in Africa, under threat of imprisonment or death as "three Americans evangelicals went to Uganda" is frankly offensive and does you no credit.
The point remains that nobody is doing anything like this when it comes to divorce. Your implication that they're equally frowned upon is absurd. Any minor disapproval of divorced members of their own flock is in no way equivalent to the systematic and organised campaigns of abuse and persecution directed at LGBT people by Christian churches around the world, but especially in the US.
And regardless of whether that takes the form of highly damaging "reparative" "therapy", into which people are duped and coerced, active campaigns to deny us marriage rights, colonial lobbying in 3rd world countries to enshrine the persecution of LGBT people in law, or just plain going out, finding a few gay people and beating the crap out of them, if you had a shred of human decency and integrity to you, you'd at least try to do your bit to encourage your religion to own its shit over this, rather than playing dumb.
I'm done here.