Our religious beliefs don't hurt gays!

MYTH:

"The gay community constantly asks: If we want to marry, how
does it hurt you? Here’s a similar question: If religious people
don’t approve of homosexual behavior, how does it hurt you?"
-Ben Shapiro

TRUTH:

BEHAVIOUR should never be confused with SEXUAL ORIENTATION!

We've said this once and we will say this again: Homosexuals are no different to their straight counterparts. The only difference is their sexual orientation. Period.

Being gay does not and should not affect other aspects of their social and personal lives, aspirations and life accomplishments. Depictions of homosexual lifestyles are stereotyped and exaggerated. The evidence of such allusions are more a result of the destructive influence of an anti-gay society than sexuality itself.

Back to the hurt part...

The fact is, religious institutions who try to influence civil laws that affect homosexuals and their families DO hurt gay people. We are all for religious freedom, and the right for these individuals and groups to practise the religion they choose. What we don't approve of is when these ideologies extend to influence the lives of minorities such as homosexuals in a negative way.

Here are some examples of how this DOES hurt gays and lesbians:

• using church funds to influence laws that affect homosexual people and families in a negative way,
• using church funds to spread mis-information about homosexuals to the general population,
  
• homosexuals who are born into religious families who do not approve of homosexuality,
• the very negative and very real destructive influences of religious leaders sending messages that homosexuality is less valid and natural than heterosexuality,
• the violence, depression, confusion and self abuse resulting from the affects of aforementioned.

Gay marriage will in no way affect the heterosexual marriage, or marriage itself. It WILL, however, help validate the families that already exist. It WILL be psychologically supportive in promoting the reality that homosexuals, gay parents and children of gay parents are equal. It WILL help promote education that homosexuals are just like heterosexuals in the way they live, their wants, needs, lifestyle, and yes... behaviour!

In fact, it DOES everything we have mentioned above through observation of what has actually happened in countries and states that have made this civil right legal, regardless of whatever mis-information has been depicted to mask this reality.