Tuesday, July 5, 2005 from Cohutta

As far as I'm concerned, religion has hijacked marriage and, more specifically, gay marriage. Let religion oppose homosexuality and gay marriage. Religions are voluntary institutions that people may be a part of or not. Being a citizen of the country in which you live is quite another thing. Local, state and federal govenrments have the duty to provide all their citiizens with equal opportunites to be a part of the community with all the legal rights afforded to all others. If the church does or does not want to do that , it doesn't have to matter. I, for one. don't give a damn. What I do give a damn about is the superstitious religious that has as their agenda the ability to influence and lay down the laws for secular society. Whether it be Afghanistan, Iraq or the USA, put those folks in a sack, shake up and up and dump them out and they'd all be the same.