State legislators across the country filed a record 238 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the first 79 days of 2022, up from 191 in the whole of 2021, and just 41 in 2018.
Proponents of these bills say they’re about protecting children, parental rights, religious freedom or a combination of these.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-poli...-rcna20418
Proponents of these bills say they’re about protecting children, parental rights, religious freedom or a combination of these.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-poli...-rcna20418
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
