Reply #137: I am not sure about that.

[demgurl]

When I was a teen I declared, in front of my Aunt and her friends, that I was atheist. Not that I was gay or bi-sexual,(I do consider myself bi-sexual) only that I was an atheist. She told my Dad I was not allowed in her house again to sleep over or even just to visit.

When I was in high school I was checking out different religions and I was very excited when my religion teacher (in an all girl Catholic school) said he would loan me a book on Buddhism. I told my Mom about this and she went to the school and reamed him and the principal out! Oh, I also got a good reaming out!

My Mom was a 'good religious woman' who sometime during my teen years decided to correct me on the right way to kiss her! I was not allowed to kiss her on the lips any more because it is 'just not done'! That left me feeling refused and rejected. There is nothing sexual about kissing your Mom on the lips. She was not even tolerant of things that could be construed to others as homosexual.

My experience with religious people (I was educated from K-12 in an all girl's Catholic school with nuns and priests teaching a lot of grades and my piano teacher was a nun as well) is that they are judgmental and phobic. They do not embrace people who are different and they definitely do not explore their own fears and try to understand them.

All you have to do is see how many states have voted down giving gays equal rights and you will see how tolerant and loving these folks are.

Then again, if they were that good and loving they would be out on the streets protesting and saying that this illegal occupation and torture is the most immoral thing in the world and it must be stopped now. Some religious people are doing this. Most are not.