Lie after Lie! Religious Extremists Continue Spreading Lies about the LGBT Community!

“We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I’m going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.”
– Harvey Milk’s “Hope Speech,” 1978

Tired of these religious fanatics demonizing and telling lies about the community! Rick Warren can keep his religious views, but his religious views shouldn’t be forced upon the rest of us. He wouldn’t like it if I forced my religious views on him or his family, would he? I’m sure he wouldn’t.

Rick Warren doesn’t speak for other faiths, so don’t believe him.  As for his comments on Buddhism, Prop 8 is against Buddhist practice because Prop 8 creates a second class citizen and discriminates against other people for who they are.  Rick Warren and his followers don’t have to like it, but they should NOT be allowed to push their religious views on the rest of us. Forcing by a vote is not “religious liberty” because it favors his faith over my own and many others. That is why we have a common law and common understanding of The Separation of Church and State, and California’s constitution say’s that “The Legislature shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.“ [You may have to research this link under declaration of rights.] Though, this should all be common sense in 21st century America, we’re not living in the dark ages when fanatics killed in order to convert or are we?

I know religion, and I know that they get their followers to do their bidding through religious fervor, and religious fervor is a scary thing when the people blindly follow without even educating themselves on issues. This is how they get their 10% tithing and donations, as well as push other issues.

We should keep and honor Separation of Church and State! If we don’t have that then we do not have “religious liberty” because without on the other does not exist.

What we have here is extremist religious doctrine being force on the greater society, and that doctrine favors one belief system over many others, and it violates my own religious liberty.

Stop the Lies!

Harvey Milk knew that only by suppressing the truth can the forces of fear and divisiveness win.

To build support for Proposition 8, the radical right said California teachers would be forced to teach about homosexuality in the classroom. That was a LIE.

They said marriage equality would expose priests and ministers to arrest if they delivered anti-gay sermons or refused to marry same-sex couples. LIE after LIE.

But the truth sets us free. The truth destroys hate. The truth changes minds – when we all work to spread it.

Once the facts are on the table – once it’s clear that all LGBT Americans want is equality, justice and dignity – people support those rights in droves. In California, though we lost, support for marriage equality was up 26% since 2000. One poll showed that 8% of Prop. 8 supporters have already changed their minds in the weeks since Election Day.

The truth will fuel the momentum toward marriage equality, hate crimes legislation, inclusive workplace protections, and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

But the truth only comes out when large groups of active citizens insist on it. Like last week, when HRC hand-delivered 27,000 letters to the LDS Church asking Mormon leaders to support protections for LGBT people in Utah. That’s the kind of rapid response that holds anti-LGBT groups accountable. They’re out there recruiting and organizing like mad – we need to match them citizen-for-citizen.

Warning! Religious extremists target Gay community. Recent events caused an increasing of hate violence/terrorism toward the Gay community after religious extremists pushed prop 8.

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