You can’t spew hate and then think you’re safe from criticism by hiding behind the Bible. Indeed, that may be the worst option.

If hate crime legislation passes, then we could be arrested for expressing our religious beliefs.

What they neglect to add is just what those expressions of religious belief are:

• Christian pharmacists refusing to do their jobs of filling prescriptions in the event the drug they are dispensing conflicts with their religious belief.
• Christian school board members who insist that creationism intelligent design be taught in schools as a legitimate science. (It’s not.)
• Christian politicians who insist that Congress swap out the Bill of Rights with the Ten Commandments.
• Muslim radicals who believe alcohol drinkers should be flogged and gays and lesbians be stoned to death.
• Fundamentalists who raise their children to believe that bullying another child is permissible if they believe that child is gay.

Their bullshit sob stories get played out over and over again, and these religious assholes continue to play the martyr every time a law is passed that gives equal rights or a ruling is made that challenges hate speech. They cry foul and hold up their holy books yelling out, “this is the law we should believe in!”

The people that piss me off are such a tiny minority, and yet they receive so much publicity that you’d think they were the only Christians that existed in America. It’s up to the rest of us to call these assholes on their bullshit.

This comic is based on information I read from Radical Doula. It was written in response to this post at Feministing.

Eugenics isn’t just a word that Star Trek geeks are familiar with. (Go watch The Wrath of Khan.) It doesn’t have to involve laboratories and test tubes and gene splicing. It can start with something as simple and insidious as a racist doctor taking away a Latinas reproductive choice, or worse: her womb.

I voluntarily chose to give up my ability to reproduce through surgery. And there were a hell of a lot of hoops I had to jump through first before I even set foot in a clinic. But then I knew I didn’t want to reproduce since I was six or seven years old. (Just ask my mom.)

But for a doctor to decide who gets to have children and who doesn’t, that’s just heinous.

For the first time in the U.S. Senate, there was a Hindu opening prayer. As cool as that is to invite some diversity to the Senate, I have mixed feelings about the event. Namely: if the United States is supposedly about separating church and state, then why is there praying of any kind going on in the Senate? (But that’s just my beef as a supporter of the separation of church and state.)

There was genuine coolness going on however, when Harry Reid invited Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest, to lead an opening invocation on the floor of the Senate. It’s a great thing when the Senate Majority Leader chooses to bring in a healthy dose of reality to the crusty white male realm that is Congress.

Unfortunately, a darker shade of reality also reared its ugly head when three so-called Christians shouted in protest from the viewing gallery of the Senate. Our hero of the hour, Rajan Zed, was understandably rattled by the disruption, but he very quickly got his composure and finished his prayer.

(He looked pretty damn nervous though! He was probably thinking, “Fuck me! I’m leading a prayer on the floor of the Senate!”)

But let it be known to all the Christian yabbos out there that the United States is still a nation of religious freedom, and you’ll not soil that freedom by installing Jesus as President. Not as long as folks like me are around.

It seems pretty simple and straightforward, a separation of Church and State. But the yabbos in Jesusland wand to “reinterpret” the First Amendment in order to make it fit their agenda: Making the United States into a Christian Nation.