DON'T FORGET

The clocks go forward one hour at one am tomorrow morning.

ACTS OF TRUTH

The massive mega church was packed to the gills.
The pews were full, people raising their hands and singing praise to their god.
Outside, in front of the marble steps, on the pavement, sat a small scruffy boy, crying.
A gentle bearded man came and crouched by him;
"What is upsetting you so, little one?"
"Oh, sir." The little boy lifted his tousled head and turned his dirty face up to the man, "them in that church won't let me in."
The man stood and gazed over the building, the marble trimmings, the smooth brickwork, the Ten Commandments picked out over the oak door in gold letters.
He shook his head and smiled and rested a hand on the small boy's head.
"I know, son. They haven't let me in there for years."
And Jesus turned and walked away.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. - Mahatma Gandhi

REDEFINING THE ISSUE

And the number one secular* argument against the coalition's plan to allow civil marriage in the UK;
We mustn't allow gays to redefine marriage.
?
How?
How do two adults who just happen to be of the same gender making a commitment to one another in front of their friends and family redefine marriage?
I know the classic term, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the union of a man and a woman, but well, how many people use (or even think of) the classic terms for wallpaper, sweep and physician?
That is, words evolve, but not in a Darwinian way, more of a Lamarckian way, that is, they alter to fit in with their surroundings and then pass that meaning to the next generation.
If the meaning of marriage is expanded to cover any type of consenting adult couple, then humanity will settle in with it, just like when they talk about a corner they don't mean someone who represents the crown in criminal proceedings, rather like a barrister today.

(Note : I have purposefully avoided taking the well worn defence paths of, 'how will redefining marriage effect your marriage?' And, 'just because same sex marriage is legal doesn't mean you will have to get divorced'. Because not only have those paths been worn down so nothing fresh grows on them, that technically isn't what is meant by those who claim 'same sex marriage will redefine the meaning of marriage').

*Yes, secular. Because you don't have to be a theist to think that those disgusting poofs shouldn't be allowed to mix with decent people.

NOT IMPOSSIBLE

In an alternate universe;
Churches go out and picket and demonstrate at funerals and political and social meetings with their signs;
GOD HATES GOATS.
GOD HATES GOAT-ENABLERS.
LEFT HANDERS ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE GOATS.
Christians (and to a smaller extent non-theists) set up groups where left-handers can find healing and freedom from their sinisterist orientation.
It can't be easy being a left-hander. We must reach out and help them into freedom, to find their potential as the right-handers they were meant to be.
After all, the opposite of 'right' is not 'left' but 'wrong'.
Let's look at the facts, shall we?
Left-handers die earlier than right-handers.
They suffer from more fatal conditions,.
They are more likely to drink and do drugs.
The majority of young left-handers commit suicide because they hate themselves and their left-handed lifestyle.
Even non-theists insist what the media have been feeding them;
Left-handers are disgusting perverts and shouldn't be allowed to teach children.
They recruit normal, healthy right-handed youth with promises of freedom from parental oppression.
Left-handers are unnatural. They take over the streets in their filthy Sinisterist Pride parades with their pens in the wrong hand, shouting;
SINISTERISM IS NOT A SIN.
When it is, it is a perversion against God and human nature.
NO ONE IS BORN LEFT-HANDED.
It is a condition, an illness, brought on by childhood abuse, neglect, a lack of love and warmth, being loved or hated by the wrong parent.
We must not hate the left-hander, but we must not encourage him in his behaviour.
For a person to be allowed to give in to his left-handed nature and pick up that pen is to allow them to overeat, to drink alcohol, to do drugs.
Of course, there is no such thing as left-handed. It's just righties doing it to rebel, or they're going through a phase.
It's a choice. Whoever says no one would choose to be left-handed because of the persecution and abuse has not met the all pervading Hollywood anti-family idea pedalled to our youth;
Left-handed is fun.
Left-handed is free.
To be left-handed means you are able to break every taboo.
We must not allow the left-hander to find acceptance. They must be forced to see their perversion will never be accepted as normal.
In some countries, left-handedness is a capital crime.
A good warrior of Lord God would kill a left-hander and make the world cleaner.
THE GREAT MAJORITY OF SERIAL MURDERERS WERE LEFT-HANDERS.
Left-handers are murderers, killers of the soul, of families.
Left-handedness is contrary to nature, or all that is good and clean and moral and healthy.
LEFT-HANDEDNESS IS NOT FOUND IN NATURE.
No left-hander can be truly happy, aware of how they are different, wrong, abnormal, in a right-handed world.
Left-handers are looking for an equality they were never find. It is a right-handed world, sinisterist, live with it. Change or die.
THERE IS NO LEFT-HANDED GENE.
Silly, eh? Annoying? It would never happen here. I'm glad I don't live in that universe where such stupid prejudice happens.
Now, read through it again and change every example where left-handedness is mentioned, or a slang word like 'goat' or 'sinisterist' and change it to 'gay' or 'faggot' or 'poof' or 'queer' or something.
Doesn't sound so silly and impossible now.
Are you glad to live in a universe where that kind of prejudice and hatred does happen?
If you think 'that's different.' ask yourself, honestly, why is it different? Why do you have no problem with picking on LGBT people and not left-handers?