I however have a different take. I also wish religious people would learn to mind their own business, and this report is great progress.

However I believe religion is much more than just anti-gay. I think it is a cancer on our collective minds that we struggle to replace with rational thought.

I truly believe the human race must evolve beyond religious belief in order to be able to sustain itself into the future. If we do not, the cynical powers that run the various cults will destroy us.

Just look at what the RCC is doing in Africa, being reckless about condoms and family planning, simply in order to fear people into remaining members.

i get attacked for this constantly so bring it on, if that is your wish. Sure, the evangelicals noted here and many other people of faith support our rights and I am grateful for that, but for me religion does so much more harm on the planet than attack civil rights and for that I wish we would cure ourselves of it.

I don’t think I’ll ever change…I will work to be more accepting of people with faith and I will acknowledge that some of them come to a supportive position because of their faith. I will however continue to work for our enlightenment as I also believe those supporters would be with us, perhaps sooner, without faith. They are simply good people who happen to have gotten wrapped up in a cult.

Oddly enough, for those old enough to look back to the 70s, there were ways that people of different backgrounds seemed more able to come together. Nobody wants a church by a burning river, any more than they want a boat dock or a park or anything else by a burning river. So let’s work together to clean up the river. For 30-odd years, we (in the US) have let ourselves be divided. It didn’t benefit the majority of us. I support abortion on demand–but part of that support is supporting alternatives for women who don’t want to have an abortion. I support separation of church and state–that doesn’t preclude schoolhouse awareness of religions. Again with the 70s reference–if you’re old enough to remember, did you feel excluded when you heard a song (on AM radio, thanks) like “Day by Day,” or “Put Your Hand In the Hand”? “Let the Sunshine In” at the end of “Hair” sure does sound like a spiritual, quite possibly a humanistic (and agnostic) one.

We can choose to live together in a civil society, and respect each others’ presence, or we can form factions and do as they did in another 70s song, “One Tin Soldier.” Who knew that song would be so accurate? But we’ve done that, and what if maybe, just maybe, our “enemies” see that we aren’t their enemy, and we can start seeing each other as people with common concerns?