Most religious people are homophobic, and homophobia is not and never will be harmless.

It’s French.

Soaked in estrogen, oh what a lovely way to put it :D

Sure, we can say that this is just one single extremist religious fanatic and that he alone is responsible for the murder of this innocent girl. However, not killing LGBT people does not equal supporting LGBT people, and I can assure you that it’s not only religious extremists that discriminate against them.

Yeah, excuse me for not letting homophobic gibberish off the hook.

Just because some religious people choose to ignore the hateful dogma so deeply embedded in their religion, doesn’t mean that said hateful dogma isn’t there. For every act of tolerance towards LGBT people, there are thousands of acts of hatred, and only when religious people will look past their own privilege and stop…

As someone that lives in a very conservative and religious country where homophobia and religion are tightly intertwined, I can assure you that extremism alone is not to blame. This girl may have been killed by a single religious fanatic, but her rights and the rights of all LGBT people are under the onslaught of even…

I never said that religion is the only source of homophobia/transphobia, but it’s certainly the main one, and we can not ignore that fact because some religious people are uncomfortable with it. They need to stop with the #NotAllReligiousPeople and face their own privileges. They’re not the ones facing discrimination,…

As someone that lives in a country where religion and homophobia are so tightly intertwined, I just can’t ignore the negative impact religion has on the LGBT population. Trust me, I recognize that it’s not *just* religion’s fault, but we can’t just sweep that fact under the rug because some religious people aren’t…

If you think that the influence of religious institutions doesn’t extend past the borders of their respective place of worship, you’re more misguided than I thought. Whether we like it or not, and I certainly don’t, religion has a massive role in shaping the moral values of certain countries. When religious dogma…

Why someone would be a willing participant in their own oppression is beyond me, but I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

You can shift the blame all you want, but when it comes to the oppression of LGBT people, religion is guilty. Religion is not the only culprit, but I think it’s safe to say that it’s the biggest one. That’s a fact and no amount of your hurt feelings will change that.

I know that not all religious people are intolerant, but that’s just a result of secularism and cherry-picking. That still doesn’t change the fact that basically all organized religion has the blood of LGBT people on its hands, and that blood won’t be washed away by a few religious progressives.

Their tolerance is just a product of secularism and cherry-picking. You’re right though - I should have been more clear with my first comment. I still stand by what I said about religion, it is completely incompatible with LGBT rights. Religious people on the other hand often don’t strictly adhere to their religion,…

One act of tolerance from cherry-picking religious “progressives” will not wash away centuries of prejudice, discrimination, hatred and religious persecution.

Practically all religions have spread vehement homophobia/transphobia and have persecuted LGBT people for centuries. That’s a fact and no amount of cherry-picking “religious progressives” will change that. If these people you speak of choose to ignore that and further their own oppression, yay for them. That won’t…

Hahahaha, I love you so much right now :D

More proof that religion and LGBT rights are completely incompatible...

Yeah, it must be all that frustrated homosexuality that’s to blame!

Absolutely brilliant!