It bothers me tremendously to see organized religions "othering" groups they demonize to prop up their self-righteous stances.
I've posted before how I was personally demonized by the long arm of the Westboro idiots back in 1976. That compromised my start in adulthood tremendously, and forced me to become exactly what they demonized, as a matter of survival.
It appeals to a base predatorial instinct to those not better informed nor empathic. Westboro made no secrets of their incongruency with their campaign entitled "God Hates Fags". I've never seen a set of words more antithetical to the overall jest I got from reading the bible as a teenager. This was behavior the Jesus of Nazareth I read about would want to heal.
I believe the same applies to stirring the base instinct of hateful recoil to misinformation about abortion. Early on the republican party found that hot button issue to stir the most ignorant of voters, and have bamboozled so many out of so much, endangered so many lives and ruined their own self respect with cries of "baby killer" and the reprehensible associated acts of violence.
I've seen so many versions of the "demonization" movie, the latest version expanded to more groups, now even to ridiculously and broadly demonize Democrats and the Democratic party.
It all goes along with the notion I most fear of any radical religious group such as the "evangelicals", that the offering plate receives the most bountiful donations to platforms that stir those limbic responses, even to the ruin of their own flocks.
Recently, I got banned from the Twitterverse for posting about the greedy televangelists as I have elsewhere: "Someone please drive a stake through the blackened little hearts of those shyster televangelists". I got banned for violation of TOS!
Someone there at the Twit factory is far more gullible than I even thought possible, I suppose.
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