Homosexuality and theocracy

Regarding Daily Inter Lake editor Frank Miele’s Dec. 22 column:

“Homosexuality is either moral or immoral; it can’t be both,” writes Miele. Except for the underlying bigotry, that’s as insipid as saying, “Prefering Coca-Cola to Pepsi is either moral or immoral; it can’t be both.” As a secular humanist, I don’t understand why anyone would care that much about other people’s sexual practices.

This demonstrates the religious right’s obsession with sex. Consider the original sin itself — having sex. Then there’s the “virgin birth” (apparently using one’s God-given reproductive system to make babies is sinful), sodomy, premarital sex, extramarital sex ....

Later, Miele claims that every stable society “has had a set of shared rules and mores ... so that every new member of society is indoctrinated to believe without question the truth of that society’s values, morals and customs.” The “truth” they are taught is that others’ values and religious beliefs are untrue.

To non-Christians, this is really scary. Connect the dots between this and the later twisted statement about “those who want to outlaw Christianity” (right-wing code for not wanting Christianity to be enacted into law) and you arrive at a theocracy.

What Miele should know is that even though Christians reproduce at a higher rate than atheists and secular humanists, public-opinion poll after public-opinion poll shows that the number of non-religious in America is on the rise.

We’re out here, and we will not allow the United States to be turned into a Christian theocracy.

Richard E. Wackrow

Whitefish and Polebridge