Well said, mate. Mrs Steve and I were bloody furious when we saw this in a news item tonight. You'd think that peeing and shitting were all about sex, according to these bloody stupid yanks. These self-righteous Christian bastards can go to hell as far as I'm concerned if they don't want to treat human beings like human beings.

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[olddude]

It has nothing at all to do with anyone's religion. It is all about hate and discrimination.


Declaring an interest here: I am, as I've made clear from previous posts a practicing Catholic. I also have an erstwhile brother who is now my sister, who also runs an LGBT group.

I'm more with olddude on this one: it is everything to do with hate and power, yes, but there's a good old dose of fear stirred into the mix. While there's undoubtedly a significant number of self-righteous Christians involved, that is at least as much to do with the number of Americans who identify themselves as Christians. This is much wider than that.