(February 13, 2015 at 12:09 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I'm old enough to remember 'Kill a Queer for Christ' t-shirts. Anita Bryant was pretty open about wanting 10 year prison terms for all the gays in that era too.
The Christers aren't that far, ever, of being ready, willing, and able to launch a pogrom.
President Reagan did not consider HIV to be a problem either, Pat Buchanan didn't care how many collateral deaths might accrue if HIV could scour the country of gay people.
That reminds me of a particular bit of crazy that many religionists put forth. If HIV is God's wrath, then evidently God likes lesbians the most, because they get HIV less than heterosexual people. Reality just does not fit with the religious narrative that religious bigots put forth.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
