Two current events show that religions are the source of most of our problems, no matter what issue you are on.
February 19, 2011.
The catalyst for covering this subject is the two events discussed on this week’s edition of the HBO TV series hosted by a modern day “Mattachino”: Real Time with Bill Maher.
Maher first covered the fact that while the world celebrates the events in Egypt in which citizens kicked out a corrupt dictator of 30 years, Fox New may in fact have a point—the fact is that Muslim men raped a foreign journalist supposedly because she wore clothing that did not follow their religious dictates, and a large majority of citizens have said they approve of such religious control of the nation.
It is not just a small group of extremists who want to force everyone to follow Islamic dictates. Maher said correctly, there will still be no true democracy there until there is sexual equality. That is true of the Islamic attitude toward homosexuals—they want us dead.
The second event he covered are current celebrations in southern states of the anniversary of the Civil War—which they lost. That war was to keep slavery. And it was supported by most citizens, including those who did not own slaves, and worse it was endorsed by churches.
A hundred years later, those churches (Methodists and Southern Baptists, etc.) have apologized to black Americans for their violation of human rights. They have repented—but to make the point relative still, members of the local Methodist Church enter the building under the proof that they approved of slavery, written in stone over the entrance of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The church divided in the 1840s, and both parts used the same book, the Bible, to prove that their god did or did not approve of slavery. Today they use that some resource to attack homosexual Americans. They changed racially, and they must be compelled—educated—to change their views on sexuality.
Is it possible that young glbt people think the battle/movement to gain equal/civil rights for homosexual Americans has been won or progress will continue automatically, with them having to do nothing? We live in a world that others worked to make better. It could be reversed if future generations don’t continue the work we have done.