Why anti-gay bullying is a theological issue

[zeborah]

"Anti-gay bullying is a theological issue because it has a theological base. I find it difficult to believe that even those among us with a vibrant imagination can muster the creative energy to picture a reality in which anti-gay violence and bullying exist without the anti-gay religious messages that support them."

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Comments

[julesjones]

My immediate thought is of the official state homophobia (as in "homosexuality is a perversion found only in the decadent West" rhetoric) found in the USSR and its client states. Of course, I also regard the USSR's official atheism to be a prime example of atheism practised as an organised religion, complete with the usual behaviour patterns of an aggressively hegemonising form of organised religion.