Driscoll is, by most accounts, a repugnant human being with grandiose dictatorial delusions. But this idea that members of gender and sexual minorities hold beliefs equivalent to religious beliefs is not new to him.

It's strange to see people believing this and promoting it, but you see it all the time. It's particularly weird because LGBTQ people run the gamut from highly sexually conservative, strictly monogamous partnered people, to polyamorous folks, to asexuals.

Besides that, LGBTQ people run a religious gamut from devout Christians to eastern spiritualists, to agnostics and atheists.

I think it's hard for people whose world views are formed primarily by religious belief to understand that many other people don't do that.

I mean, I guess it can look vaguely religious when LGBTQ people band together to do activism and advocacy, but that's a simplistic, deeply flawed way of seeing things.

We only do that to counter oppression. LGBTQ people with wildly diverse beliefs and worldviews only come together because people like Driscoll (and many more mainstream Christians) work so hard to force their religious beliefs and practices on us.

But that doesn't make us religious. Conservative Christians have a hard time understanding that you don't need to have religious ideas to think about the world and society and how to get along in it.

I've been listening to conservative Christians claim that gay and trans people are religious since I was in my early twenties. It was a ridiculous thing to claim then, and it's just as ridiculous today.

Among conservative Christians however, it's pretty much accepted.