Reply #86: Thank you - you are absolutely correct.

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Religion and/or religious-based "issues" like abortion and gay marriage are just fucking flares sent up to distract us *all* from the real Issues.

Semantics is not a reason to abandon one's beliefs, nor is one less-than-pleasant sounding turn of phrase.

Good GRAVY - given all the shit burying us right now - international "diplomacy", war, looming economic disaster, environmental contamination and the pressing need for all of us to learn to goosestep to name but a few - it's not worth giving one single *word* the power to crumble the foundations of one's own beliefs.