Denying gay marriage makes no sense

[mgc1961]

I never thought I'd become a full-fledged supporter of same-sex marriage, especially growing up in a socially conservative Catholic family of Mexican descent.

From an early age, I had homophobia drilled into my head at church, at school and at home. I remember studying for my first Communion and hearing the nuns talking about how the Bible said it was an abomination for men to lie down with one another.

As a teenager visiting relatives in Mexico in the early 1980s, I can remember a mob massing outside a disco to exact justice on two boys whose crime was sitting too close to each other.


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[DrDan]

1. it does to the fundamentalist Christians . . .

[Snoutport]

5. Poor disco dudes!

Thank you for sharing this story! My partner and I wish we could get married but no....domestic partnership is our only option for now.

[mgc1961]

6. Strangely enough, I don't recall homosexuality being discussed at home or church.

That's probably because I attended only one year of Catholic school and we moved so often when I was a kid that I wasn't pulled into that particular black hole of religiosity.

[obxhead]

2. There is a great deal about religious doctrine that makes absolutely

no sense at all.

The followers of said religious doctrine and its interpretation make even less sense.

[Ian David]

3. It makes sense if Chewbacca lives on Endor.

Oh, wait.

Chewbacca lives on Kashyyyk.

[Kurovski]

4. You just spend the whole day blaspheming, don't you?

I'm praying for you, so you're covered.

EDIT: ;-)

[Ian David]

7. Blaspheming and masturbating. Sometimes, both simultaneously. n/t