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In reply to the discussion: "I don't understand it, but I know my god does." [View all]hatrack
(65,043 posts)When they work to deny basic legal rights to LGBT citizens, who can no more choose their sexual identity than choose the color of their eyes;
When they work to deny rights to women to control their own reproductive choices, including access to abortion;
When they work to destroy scientific curricula in public schools because science conflicts on multiple fundamental levels with their myths;
And when, addition to that, they seek to remove funding from public schools and divert it to their own private religious institutions, so that public education itself, not just science education, can be destroyed;
When they seek to elect the likes of Roy Moore, who has stated unequivocally that he will not follow the Constitution as US Senator, because his inerrant religious insights are more important than secular law;
When they bilk the public for millions in tax revenues to support scam-tastic tourist traps like Ark Encounter, and then try and switch contract terms to avoid even minimal tax liability;
And when they brainwash tens of millions of Americans into believing that the world not only is ending, but must end (preferably with lots of nuclear weapons) so that Pro Wrestling Jesus can come out of the sky and make all the right people eternally happy;
I'd say they're pushing their beliefs on pretty much everybody.
Maybe you don't have a problem with that. I sure as shit do.