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originally posted by: Degradation33
Missed comment:
What's really different between Pride and Religion?
What do each share in common?
Identity badge ✅️
Symbolism ✅️
Lifestyle ✅️
Moral code ✅️
Beliefs about the body and default state of self ✅️
In every operative sense of it, the LGBTQIA+++ Prime membership is as much an all-ecompassing identity as being a Christian or Muslim. It scripts ones values and actions in life.
How the hell is it not treated like a religion in terms of keeping it private or within said community?
Where LGBT celebrations are no more apparent than a church carnival or religious influenced event, like a Catholic procession.
It may not technically qualify as religion, but if you take a totally objective view of "what religion does and means to people" it qualifies as a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
I'm not saying piss on people's who can't help who they are and have matured enough to know for certain, I am just saying it was a mistake to not keep separation between Rainbows and State.
I feel "Don't ask, don't tell," was actually a better option to keep LGBT from becoming a quasi-religion. Only one where you didn't get the Section 8 for being caught Biloxi Blues style.
That doesn't put up a new type of cross at the civic plaza either. "Not being able to help it" is a weak justification for, what is every sense, religious indoctrination.
It just seems like a change of mask that exempted itself from law after environment stopped being a determining factor to sexual identity.