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I do give organized religion a bad rap, but sometimes a religious story makes me bite my tongue and rethink my fervent stand against its sometimes misunderstood stances. This story isn’t one of those, and in fact, it made me bite my tongue in shock.

A Christian group in Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that a package of hate crimes laws named after murder victim Matthew Shepard is an affront to their religious freedom.

Yeah! Cause if we want to torture and kill people for their physiological differences – all in the name of Jesus Christ – then we’re gonna do it! Yay God!

Haven’t we had enough with organized religion by now? My issue isn’t with the basis of religion, itself. My issue is with the fact that idiot humans are left to openly interpret things on their own 2000 years later that was written in a language that they don’t speak. It would be as if Nicholas Cage found a millenium old treasure map under the lost city of Atlantis and started to tell us what the symbols meant without having any idea what those symbols actually meant.

Filed by the Thomas More Law Center — which bills itself as the religious answer to the American Civil Liberties Union — the complaint claims that protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people “is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy.”

Ah yes, because the byproduct of protecting someone from being physically or mentally harmed due to their sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion seems like the un-Christian thing to do. I must have missed that part of the parable when Jesus brought that gay leper Lazarus back to life so he could torture and re-kill him. Come to think about it, I must have missed the entire section of the Bible which said, “Judge everyone else. Judge the shit out of them and throw the first stone for whatever reason befits your interests. Hate thy enemy…and fuck it, hate thy neighbor the same. And where the fuck is Judas, that cocksucking prick?”