Shouldn't We Demand That Religion-Based Policies Prove They Have Objective Fact Behind Them? [View all]

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All of the anti-gay/women/immigrant/minority policies we see being pushed through US legislative bodies these days have Christianity at their very core.

But Christianity is belief based on make believe, not fact. Why should real people with real lives have their lives influenced and governed by make believe beliefs?

If a legislator proposed major cuts to the defense budget because he believed that our army doesn't need to purchase stocks of food because god is going to provide manna from heaven to feed our troops, his fellow legislators would not shake their heads in agreement that his religious beliefs needed to be respected, and that they should form the basis of legislation. Yet, that's what's happening when it comes to the topic of gay marriage or contraception. All of the "arguments" made against the same are religious-based arguments that have no basis in fact. The statistics aren't there to support the ideas.

So why do we let the make believe of religion determine the laws of our secular government? Seems like a conceit that civilized people shouldn't abide these days.