FAIL Quote of the Day: Yet another “religious freedom” argument

With this magical touch, you shall be … absolutely no better off than before

One day, people may realize how ridiculous it is to equate the legalization basic civil rights for minorities that are traditionally discriminated against by religionists, to “oppressing their religious freedom”. But, today is not that day. Instead, here is the Catholic News Agency’s fresh argument against the imminent repeal of the anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the U.S. Military:

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot said that if the military is forced to promote homosexual behavior there will be “open conflict between the virtues taught by chaplains and the moral message delivered by the military.”

“In such a conflict, it’s obvious who will win and who will lose,” Theriot claimed. “If the state favors the demands of the homosexual activists over the First Amendment, it is only a matter of time before the military censors the religious expression of its chaplains and marginalizes denominations that teach what the Bible says about homosexual behavior.”

You can tell how prejudiced the article is just by noticing its phrasing of how the military would somehow be “forced to promote homosexual behavior”, which is absolute bullshit. Repealing DADT would merely result in gays not being legally discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation, and nothing more. Anyone who somehow extracts from this that there will then be “promotion of homosexual behavior” immediately throws their ignorance and bigotry into relief. And that’s not even to mention all that nonsense about “moral messages”, “homosexual activists”, censorship of the First Amendment, and so on.

Kevin Theriot, merely for being thick and ignorant enough to bring up that tired and endlessly refuted “religious freedom” argument, in addition being arrogant enough to presume that Catholicism provides the sole true virtues and morality in the military, and that what the Bible (of all things!) has to say about gays is of any relevance, you FAIL.

(via @todayspolitics)