Indeed! Because remaining a member of the Catholic Church means being complicit with institutional bigotry and persecution.

It means being complicit with an institution that is working its ass off — spending hundreds of millions of parishioner donations every year in the United States— to try to stop women from controlling their own bodies, from contraception to abortion. This is heinous and cruel.

It means being complicit with an institution that denies all women any actual power in the Church. It means accepting that women must always be second class and subordinate to men. Again, that's just heinous.

It means being complicit with an institution that teaches hundreds of millions of children around the globe every day that queer people like me are literally depraved and disordered.

Speaking of which, it means being complicit with an institution led by a man who just called us gay people faggots, or the Italian equivalent, while reinforcing his ban on gay men even training for the priesthood.

It's hard for me to imagine how people could be okay with a disgusting piece of shit like Pope Francis. He is heinous.

If I ever heard anybody calling gay people f***** in real life, I'd get in their face and make a big deal about it. It's hard for me to imagine how evil Catholic people can be to allow that to pass. To allow themselves to be led by a man who was obviously vicious, cruel, disgusting, and evil.

It's almost impossible for me to understand how anyone could be a part of a Church that calls me what that Church calls me.

I have only one response:

I AM NOT DEPRAVED! I AM NOT DISORDERED!

I hold people who remain complicit with that idea in the highest possible level of personal disrespect, and the deepest personal loathing.

It's hard for me to imagine how religion can be so evil, so bullying, and so cruel.

But it is.

I think you should be awesomely proud of yourself for leading people to abandon those sick teachings.