Religion and Teh Gay
Let me start off by stating that I am neither religious nor gay, so by contemporary journalistic standards that makes me fully qualified to shoot my mouth off on this subject, which I am about to do. So there. I hardly suppose I am alone in noting the fact that Conservatives, who feel free to ignore just about everything Jesus had to say about the poor, strangers, the sick, etc. feel fully justified in falling into a self-righteous fit of Christian indignation over two subjects that Jesus never felt called upon to mention- gays and abortion. Here's my guess as to why that is. A salient factor of religion that I rarely hear mentioned is its role in making a virtue out of necessity. The great example of this, to my mind, is Lent. In the winter in Europe food was scarce, so the Church created this custom to give a veneer of virtue to what otherwise would have been a time of deprivation and want. Even Christmas, and the pagan customs that preceded it, can b...