Organized Religion is Failing the Gay and Transgender Community

[gcomeau]

20. Uh-huh...

"My argument was that religious institutions have sometimes been positive forces"

Which was exactly what my comment before you even made your post was talking about. You can argue different angles on them "sometimes being positive forces"... whether it be "sometimes they made people feel better" or "sometimes they made people act in ways I approve of"... or whatever you want. But in every case they do so through means that undercut the foundation of any lasting good coming from them. They not only employ no rational justifications of their own but they *actively undercut* actual real rational ones by declaring that a person's individual baseless preferences and unfounded beliefs about what some supernatural entity wants can be held superior to any challenge from reason or evidence.

So yeah, maybe one day in one town some religious institution is saying something you like that has some beneficial effect, but in doing so they are legitimizing the baseless rationalizations that also underlay other contemptible jackasses saying that God hates gay people or whatever.

Thus... fail. In every case... fail. Without exception... fail.