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The only thing I hate more than the religious right is people who tell me that I shouldn't be trying so hard to fight them, because doing so is "intolerant" of other people's beliefs.
Well, fuck me. I had no idea that trying to protect oneself and one's friends from being violently oppressed was so terribly rude. Pardon me while I go do their work for them and throw myself off a bridge. Maybe then the fuckers will stop complaining that their religious rights are being trampled on.
(And why the fuck is it always straight, gender-role adherent people who argue this?)
Sigh...
I know some of them are just naive kids who sincerely believe that if we just close our eyes and wish really hard, that asshats like Dobson, Phelps and Robertson will just magically see the error of their ways and start supporting the rights of queer folk, women and non-Christians.
But some of them? I don't get it. The only thing I can think is that they think we're asking for too much. Maybe somewhere inside, they believe that the fundies are right, and that women and queer folk really are less favored in $deity's eyes, and therefore we're being far too uppity when we demand that people stop fucking us over because their scriptures tell them to.
I've lived too long and fought too hard to have any more patience for dicking around trying to play nice with people who think I should be jailed (or worse) because I don't wear skirts and submit to my husband. Life is too short to waste it on trying to build bridges with people whose sole purpose in life is to apply C4 to said bridges before the ground for them has even been broken.
We have wasted too much time trying to coddle these people into seeing things our way. It's time we put our collective feet down and started the process of surgically removing the tumor of religion from the body politic.
Well, fuck me. I had no idea that trying to protect oneself and one's friends from being violently oppressed was so terribly rude. Pardon me while I go do their work for them and throw myself off a bridge. Maybe then the fuckers will stop complaining that their religious rights are being trampled on.
(And why the fuck is it always straight, gender-role adherent people who argue this?)
Sigh...
I know some of them are just naive kids who sincerely believe that if we just close our eyes and wish really hard, that asshats like Dobson, Phelps and Robertson will just magically see the error of their ways and start supporting the rights of queer folk, women and non-Christians.
But some of them? I don't get it. The only thing I can think is that they think we're asking for too much. Maybe somewhere inside, they believe that the fundies are right, and that women and queer folk really are less favored in $deity's eyes, and therefore we're being far too uppity when we demand that people stop fucking us over because their scriptures tell them to.
I've lived too long and fought too hard to have any more patience for dicking around trying to play nice with people who think I should be jailed (or worse) because I don't wear skirts and submit to my husband. Life is too short to waste it on trying to build bridges with people whose sole purpose in life is to apply C4 to said bridges before the ground for them has even been broken.
We have wasted too much time trying to coddle these people into seeing things our way. It's time we put our collective feet down and started the process of surgically removing the tumor of religion from the body politic.
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