Religion Fine with Discrimination

Now maybe I am just stupid, but when did religion include the right to discriminate?

The Catholic Church has won another round against doing what is right, in the name of God, and one has to wonder, how many tears GOD must be shedding at such bigotry and racism being sanctified in his name. Montana is the latest to deny homosexuals protection under the law from discrimination and bullying, because the Church and yep, the Boy Scouts too, objected strongly to including such addition to the laws. It simply died in committee.

Although the legislation had the support of LGBT rights groups and the ACLU it was opposed by conservative organizations like the Catholic Church Church, the Boy Scouts and Citizens for Decency. (story)

By insuring that no person is denied housing, education, or justice is what makes a society Just, Free, Democratic. To deny any small segment, even an offensive segment of society those benefits, those rights, is contrary to Democracy, and to Freedom itself. Yet here is the Catholic Church spending its billions of money, not to help feed the poor, not to help heal the sick, but to deny a segment of society their basic civil rights. Somehow, they believe and so to do the politicians of Montana, that their right to hate me, to shun me is of greater importance than my right to live where I wish, to live as I choose, and to be free to enjoy my surrounding free from abuse, hate, and violence.

They argued that including the LGBT community would force them to hire gays and rent housing to them even if their religions oppose homosexuality. That, they claimed, was a violation of religious freedom. (story)

I really have no problem with anyone believing in what they wish. I do have a problem when they insist that what they believe is superior to allowing me the same rights they enjoy. Does not all citizens have the right to seek a happy life of their own choosing? When did that all change to include an amendment that it only applied to those who believed as Catholics do?

What troubles me the most however, is that these are the same people who condemn the Muslim Religion for being one of hate, of violence. Sort of like the pot calling the kettle black isn’t it? After all, in Iran they can hang Gays, and somehow, I don’t see the Pope or his Bishops too upset by that, and you know, given their rhetoric, I bet they’d love it if they could have the same power. So much for being about Peace, about loving they neighbour as thyself.