Bull
Screw all the bullshit from the right about not giving minorities (usually gays) "special" rights, which only means the right to do what these religious freaks are not prohibited from doing. I've come to the realization that the only groups in this country, THE ONLY GROUPS that get actual, for real, special rights are the rich and the religious. As Noam Chomsky says, "Human rights are subordinated to the overwhealming, overriding need of profit for investors." This is enabled by, "the really existing doctrine of free markets, that means market discipline for the poor and the defenseless, but plenty of protection and subsidy for those who really need it, the rich and the powerful."
Also, the fact that the religious can get away with demonizing the "other", an urge that I suppose exists deep within all of us, and in general being able to justify ANYTHING (that's another thing, they are also the only group that is allowed to take no personal responsiblity for anything, but at the same time demonize people like Bill Clinton for allegedly creating a culture of personal license, while he is the only recent president who fully accepted responsiblity whenever a political proposal failed or led to unintended consequences), who wouldn't, in pubic life, turn into a partisan, pseudo-religious hack. They are the only people who are allowed by law to force their beliefs on others against their will, which coincidentally, is exactly what their frigging religion calls for. You could also get rich. If that isn't heaven on earth to a shallow fraud, what is? It's essentially like being plucked by the hand of god, having your frontal lobe ripped out, though painlessly, and plopped down in the garden of eden to gorge your spiritually gluttonous maw with huge, ripe, tempting, soulless apples for the rest of your days then shitting all over yourself and Eve, only to have someone else clean it up.
