Boycott Chick-fil-A with me!

I had a weird dream last night. Basically my father came proclaimed that he was giving up Mormonism... all I could think was "You're a mormon?"

Either way, just because a few people in a religion are bigots, doesn't make everyone in the religion a bigot. Just because these few people in the religion are leaders of the religion, doesn't mean anything; every leader of a religion is a bigot... it's how they became leaders, through polarizing words and charisma. For that matter, everyone who is Muslim is a terrorist, everyone who is Christian is a Nazi, and every Jew killed Jesus Christ.

That being said, there must be a semblance of reality. As a leader of your religion/sect/organization, EVERYTHING you do is reflective of your organization. Hell, the same thing goes for being a MEMBER. If you're Muslim, and a terrorist, and claiming to do terroristic acts in the name of Moslem, its only natural that people who know of you, will relate Muslims to terrorism. So if you're Mormon, and a gay-bashing bigot, and giving millions of dollars to fund gay-bashing groups in the name of Mormonism...
 
The faith is generally fine despite differences, but it's how they attempt integrate it into society that's the issue. I don't ask for people to hide their faith, that would be hypocritical as the people in fear of them are forced to do that as is. The solution is simply creating protective laws that stops allowing religion to have ANY say or benefits from the government. It's fine if you want to pray in school, it's not fine if you demand special treatment for it or force people to say "God" in the pledge...etc. Allow people to do as they want so long as it does not directly affect someone else's life or be brought to a point of harassment.You may not be the Hitler of the anti-gay revolution, but if you wield your opinion in favor of a law that supports it or even a social setting that looks down upon it, you are part of the problem. Simply treating others as a second class citizen has been most of the problem and the people doing it feel they're not doing anything wrong and it's merely an opinion and not hate...well it is hate.

The issue with gays in government is purely a religious one. There is not a single rational reason to be opposed to gays that doesn't fall under promoting a faith that is wrong or fearing the backlash of voters of that faith. Science and logic has weeded all other reasoning as asinine.

California will eventually fold and repeal prop 8, it's a matter for when. The more educated people become the more liberal they become, our generation is still affected by previous ones.

As for anti-gay in the religion. Only a FEW religions are anti gay, most being branches of Judaism (Christianity, Catholicism, Mormonism, etc...). Yet even within these it can be argued. Often people misinterpret the passages or overlook possible translations. Sodomy is a severely dynamic term and can mean anything from oral to homosexuality to beastiality to ANYTHING regarded as sexually illegal. It is NEVER specified in the book. When saying certain acts were "unnatural" in a lesbian scenario and thus a sin...this was referring to orgies...often ones with animals in the mix. But the big one people love to pull up "He slept with man as though he were woman and God was scornful" (translation differs per book). People feel this is the nail in the coffin as far as stance...yet it can easily and more logically be assumed, given the context of the whole, that this unmarried gay couple was not exempt of being adulterers simply because it was not male and female intercourse. Often many of the sins of gay people in the bible are crimes of another nature and they just so happen to be gay.

The more ya know...
 
If they were supporting some crazy crap like Westboro baptist church or something I'd care, but as it is I don't so there's no way im boycotting (though I almost never eat chick-fil-a anyway)
 
I dont think we have Chikfila in california cuz ive never heard of it. We have popeyes and church's. But regardless, I dont like any of those places anyways, so fuck em!! Ill bet church's and chickfila are the same company just different names. I got your back holmes!!!

HRD
 
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