Letters to the Editor
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It's about power over women
I've asked the same question about being against abortion and birth control of born-again Christian friends of mine, and they say it's really about one thing: the patriarchal fundamentalist Christian hierarchy being terrified of female sexual power and sexuality in general. So they try to control conception, childbirth, sexual preference, etc. They fear sexuality because it is so primal; they want the only primal passions to involve their vengeful Deity. Very 1984 (the book, not the year).
What I don't get is, um, what do gays and Muslims have to do with this? If you're against abortion, that's fine. Protest if you have to, it's in the First Amendment. But burning rainbow flags and copies of the Koran? Does being a Christian these days come down to being a hate-spewing ignoramus talking nonsense about the Last Days and teaching your kids that what God really wants us to do is exterminate people who don't believe as we do?
Is that fucking insane, or is it just me?