Where Are the Pro-LGBT Religious Voices in Mainstream Media?

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18. Just plain wrong. And a little bit insulting.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Faith, as an emotion, is one half of the human experience. Religion, as the shared experience of faith, is unavoidable if not indispensable for human cooperation and cultural viability.

I affirm the compassion and justice that comes from the shared experience of hope for a better tommorrow. I make that affirmation as someone who has had to struggle for, and usually live without, the natural human impulse for hope that makes religion work.

I denounce any organization or person that would profit from from that most precious of human attributes in any way, whether that profit comes in the form of monetary gain or social status, which usually go hand in hand.

The drive to exploit anything and everything for profit has claimed not only the world but our hearts as well. It has become so pernicious and pervasive that we accept it as a right and natural way to treat each other. It's not. It is cruel and unfair because the most exploited are those least able to bear the burden. The list of wealthy organizations that lines up at the hearts of each and every one of us to feed off our desire to believe grows longer every day and the actual benefit from those beliefs shrinks every day as well.

There is a pumpjack between the shoulderblades of every man, woman, and child in this country. And every time I see someone try to step up to the spigot I'll split their excuse for doing so from groin to gullet. And as you have discovered I'm fairly goddamn good at it.