Oh, you're thinking that us mean old atheists mean to infringe on your religious beliefs.
No. I'm ranting because the opposite is happening. People are using their religion as an excuse to be shitty to just about everyone else.
Yes, we have a First Amendment in this country. Yes, it guarantees your freedom of (or from) religion. But there's a limit. There is a point where your right to act on behalf of your imaginary friend stops.
Your right to freedom of religion ends when your exercise of religion causes harm to others.
This should go under the category of "No shit, Sherlock!", but it seems that about half of this country Just Doesn't Get It.
And they're fine with using the Christian deity as an excuse for verbal, emotional, and physical abuse of members of the LGBT community. They're fine with throwing them out on the street, making them homeless, condemning them to a possible life of violence, drug abuse, disease, and misery. Yeah, that'll bring them closer to God...
I'm just going to quickly link to Steveningen's diary. The video in there is pretty brutal, showing fundamentalist Christian "love" at it's finest. It makes me drunk on rageahol, and upsets a lot of people, so I'm not going to embed it.
Fucking brilliant, rejecting your own children in favor of an imaginary friend. And people look at me funny when I say religion is fucking stupid...
Like I said, it's time to set limits.
If, you, like the Taliban or ISIS, are shooting little girls in the face for the crime of learning to read, because girls becoming smart makes Baby Mohammed cry, you've stepped past the line where freedom of religion ends.
If you're stripping women of the rights to control their own bodies because birth control pills make Baby Jesus cry, you're out of line. Your religious rights should end. In fact, why do corporations have freedom of religion at all? Oh yeah, five pieces of corrupt subhuman filth on the Supreme Court...
And if you're forcing teenagers onto the street for the crime of being gay, because your deity hates gay people, your religious rights end.
Those parents in that video aren't showing anything resembling the love their religion claims to promote. They belong in prison for child abuse and child abandonment. End of story. Imaginary skydaddies should grant no special rights under the law.
Yes, the fundies are going to scream about how being told they can't hit, abuse, or abandon LGBT teens "infringes their FREEEEEEEEEDOM somehow. I didn't know that freedom to oppress people who aren't like you was guaranteed in the Constitution. I don't suppose someone could look that part up for me?