It feels degrading and dehumanizing. I've felt the focus of that intense religious disapproval since I was 11 years old and figured out I was gay during an anti-gay sermon in church.

I don't know why so many Christians feel justified using force, political force that often leads to actual physical brutality by cops, to impose their absurd superstitions on everybody else.

I mean, seriously! Do it if you sincerely believe a god wants you to do, then go ahead and do it if it's not against the law. I don't care.

But if you want to impose your inane superstitions on people with different religious ideas are no religious ideas — then (seriously!) sit down and shut up.

Go to church and talk about your ideas there. I don't care.

But leave other people alone.

I don't know why that should be such a tough concept. Clearly, authoritarianism is built into the very heart of traditional Christianity. Most Christians are so anxious to judge others and force them to behave in particular ways.

Supposedly, the United States is becoming less Christian.

As a queer person, I certainly hope so.

I certainly hope a moral and enraged majority of good people who don't believe in unfalsifiable nonsense Will join me telling these traditionalist Christians to sit down and mind their own business.