OK Everyone, it's Time to Form a Religion

[mondo joe]

It's what I've been saying about gays forever. We need a religion in which coming out is a sacrament, being out is a commandment and same sex marriage a rite.

But now that religion somehow means you don't have to do your job, but you can force your employer to let you do anything ELSE you want, I'd extend that idea to progressives everywhere.

How about a non denominational church in which it's required to not serve bigots or homophobes? A religion in which protesting the president is a holy requirement. And anything else that we like!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I spent years hanging out in gay clubs

There's a name for the kind of girl I was - a straight girl with lots of gay male friends - but I'm sure it's so un-PC, this post would get deleted.

I have qualifications. I can provide them privately, but they involve getting naked boy dancers to swing it in the opposite direction at my nod. Some nights we were all so dizzy, we almost passed out. Thank heaven for amyl ....... never mind.

Can I be Goddess?

PLEASE?????

[TreasonousBastard]

2. We already have quite a few of those...

"seek and ye shall find."

[mondo joe]

5. Then why aren't we using them in the same way the Right Wing

Christians are erfusing to fill birth control prescriptions?

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Because REAL religions...

are more interested in the spiritual welfare of their members than getting into politics.

When you've got a ready schedule of soup kitchens, homeless shelters, couselling the parishioners with problems, visitng the sick in hospitals, weddings, funerals, and all else that they do, there's little time left for politics.

Issues are another matter, though. All religions I know have something to say about at least one or two issues they feel important. Many of those things they say we would agree with.

(When was the last time either of the Reverands Dobson or Sharpton actually held a service?)

[mondo joe]

8. I don't care about real religions. I care about preserving our rights

which these days means being a corporation or being under the protection of a religion.

[satya]

3. I want us to get some of those giveaways to "faith-based" orgs, too. n/t

[MercutioATC]

4. I have the PERFECT religion!!

http://www.venganza.org/

[geniph]

7. I'm Church of the Militant Agnostic

"I don't know, and YOU DON'T EITHER!"

That being said, the vast majority of UU's and liberal Episcopalian churches are "open and affirming." The biggest Episcopalian church in Seattle, St. Mark's, has an openly gay minister and performs commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples.

I keep wondering when Christian Scientists are going to start becoming pharmacists and refuse to fill any prescriptions, or Scientologists are going to become pharmacists and refuse to fill prescriptions for psychoactive drugs. Could I refuse to fill prescriptions for fertility drugs if I don't approve of them? Viagra for ugly men? Where do we draw the line of sheer absurdity? Do YOU get to pick and choose which parts of YOUR job you'll do based on religion? I don't. What suddenly makes pharmacists so GD special?

[Jacobin]

9. I'd like to start a resurgence of Druidism

I don't think anyone really knows what their practices were, so that would give me lots of leeway