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Originally Posted by chtulu
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We have had issues with abortion and pro choice for years. We still aren't funding stem cell research with government money because of the religious aspect of life at conception, yadda yadda yadda.
Also, if you don't think the government on a state level is being influenced by the church then maybe you should look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezwIZo-hKiI
It's about how much the mormon church influenced and spent on proposition 8. They directly impacted the votes. In this case, religion impacted government; specifically civil right laws. Don't try to tell me that religion and God is only for personal well being, it encroaches on other lives and their personal beliefs. |
No, you're missing the point. Religion didn't raise money and votes for Proposition 8. People did. They did it through the Mormon church. If the Mormon church didn't exist, they'd have done it through some anti-gay marriage PAC. In fact, that very trailer quotes a person saying that the Church was operating as a PAC. You're talking about "religion" as if it's forming people's opinions on the matter, when that is clearly not the case. As stated above, persecution against homosexuals pre-dates Jesus by thousands of years. In the case of its work on Proposition 8, the Mormon Church might as well have been the NRA. You're acting as if these viewpoints are being created by religion, when in reality, the religious entities you're pointing at are only being used as tools to legitimize and organize previously-held prejudices and beliefs.