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Gurney said: ‘Many use religion as a camouflage for hurtful and bigoted opinions, as it frequently gets them a ‘free pass’ and is excused if it’s part of someone’s faith. But it shouldn’t be. It should be called out and challenged.
When we hear from the religious right that ‘abortion is morally wrong’, or ‘women shouldn’t have babies outside wedlock’ and so on… rather than meekly commenting ‘Oh I see, it’s your religious belief, so you can carry on exercising your rights over other people’s bodies and lives or at least supporting those organisations that do just that’, it’s important to oppose this sort of closed-minded bigotry, no matter whether the origin is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Jedi…
Thankfully, church and state have been separate for centuries in this country, which without doubt has enabled human rights to progress in a ways which have not been possible in many others, particularly the rights of women, gays, and minorities in general. Everyone should be grateful for this enlightenment and de-throning of religious authority, rather than longing for a return to darkness, bigotry and deference to superstition.’
Nope, Gurney. A failed response on so many levels .. not least your total failure to see your own intolerance and bigotry. The impetus towards secularisation has certainly ensured that people of faith have decreasing impact on the issues you cite. It places us in the minority. But we should still have the right of expression afforded to others … although I’ve long suspected that your personal ideological pathologies would love to see people like me silenced and criminalised. I am 70 years old now … but you may well see this fulfilled in my life time.