Christian group books anti-gay ads to appear on buses

[Aegrus]

I cannot believe this advertising. As a gay man I am appalled at this but not surprised. I spent most of my adolescence coming to terms with being gay and it was not an easy road. Now I am in my forties and I finally have more confidence in who I am, but this sort of promotion scares me so much. I have come to the conclusion that the reason why religions hate homosexuals so much is due to the fact that they cannot procreate and therefore are unable to contribute to the populating of a particular religious order. We are of no use whatsoever to those religions who seeks to increase numbers. The fact that we are contributors to society as much as anyone falls on stoney ground and at the end of the day we are considered the lowest of the low. I consider myself a decent human being and would never wish harm to my fellow man/woman, but I really do fear for the future as religion seems to be becoming more and more dominant again.

I don't think the religious often think that far into it. Well, maybe the clergy do, but most people have been conditioned from birth to hate gay people for no reason. I agree, the bigotry is disgusting.

As for religion becoming more powerful. . .I'm not sure about world wide, but America is now more atheist than ever before in its history (still only at a stunning 10%, lol), but we at least haven't been moving backwards on the subject of religion.