And if that "assault" is against laws that are secular, I have no problem.
But laws that are strictly religious in nature should have no standing in our nation. You can have those laws within your church, but forcing them on everyone, regardless of their belief, should not happen.
And I don't see the churches using their input to help the poor or to get medical care for the sick. I see them using that influence to try to prevent couples who love each other from being able to marry (in the eyes of the gov't) because their religion says it is bad. Two people who love each other and have been living together and sharing a life before same sex marriage was recognized. The influence to deny them marriage does not remove homosexuality from the world. It just denies them equal protection under the laws of a nation that proclaims freedom of religion.
Churches and religious people have just as much right to participate in the political process as anyone else.
That you even have the desire to set yourself up as a judge of whether their participation is legitimate, is you being the bigot here, not them.
Everyone has the right to participate. No one has the right to rule. We Americans tolerate all sorts of separatist religious groups, from ultra-Orthodox Jews to Amish and beyond. But as the old saying goes, your civil rights end where my nose begins. You can have your cult, as long as you don't bother anyone else. Go off and do your thing in your own home and place of worship, just not in the legislature to pass laws that apply to everyone else.
All laws apply to everyone.
But only those you deem to be a "cult" don't get to participate? That is what you want, and that makes you the bigot supporting discrimination.
You cult people want to rule all of us, rather than just doing your own thing. As I said, idiot, you can participate, but you are not entitled to rule. Take your shit elsewhere. If you want to go suck after pigpence or frankie graham, or find some woman to impregnate 65 times, this is just you and your decisions. Keep your dirty hands off of other people.
Your words.
"You can have your cult, as long as you don't bother anyone else. Go off and do your thing in your own home and place of worship, just not in the legislature to pass laws that apply to everyone else."
That is you saying that Christians, that you decide are a "cult" should not participate.
You say shit, I call you on it, then you deny what you just said. Until the next time, when you say the same shit. And then I call you on the shit. You act completely shocked, and deny it. But still want to bar people you call cult members from participating,
You are a bigot. Christians, even ones you don't like, have as much right to participate in the making of laws that effect everyone.
Your problem with this, is you being a bigot.
