What, it's against YER RELIGION to give a kid a home?

News from Oklahoma: if you BELIEVE in Jesus, that's a good excuse to keep a hungry, lovelorn, bewildered kid out of the hands of a couple that is seeking to adopt.

That is, if the couple is GAY.

Good thing Elton John and his husband live in Georgia.

There are heterosexual couples that adopt simply because of finances. They get money from the government. They keep most of it and give the kids the minimum of food, clothing and attention. But the important thing is that they're, what, role models for how a man and woman should behave?

We can debate this endlessly, but one important question here is...why bow down to any crackpot's BELIEFS, just because they're RELIGIOUS? There are people whose RELIGIOUS belief is that every other religion is bogus and all practitioners are infidels who should be killed. In Oklahoma, can a Muslim murderer a Christian and get away with it because it's a RELIGIOUS BELIEF?

How about the RELIGION that sacrifices animals on an altar? We look the other way on that most of the time? Yeah. We do.

Orthodox Jews can kill hundreds of chickens in the street, with blood and feathers all over the place, and it's ok because it's a RELIGIOUS ritual. Maybe after a few hours of this insanity, they clean up the street at least?

One of the tough questions is the separation of church and state, and just how much tolerance we should have for Christmas decorations on government property, declaring CERTAIN religious days to be pretty much holidays where there's not even mail delivery or allowing somebody to collect jury duty money by sitting day after day and reciting, "it is against my belief to judge my fellow man." Sure. Go back and sit down. As long as you're AVAILABLE for jury duty for three days, you're fine.

Prisoners often convert to Judaism while in jail, because they know the "kosher meal" is going to be better than the one served to everybody else. Oh, they don't get circumcised or read memorized passages and say "today I am a man, they just say, "Holy Moses, I'm a Jew."

Mr. Lennon sang, "Imagine...no religion." Imagine that. No religion that gets in the way of sanity. There are people who respect the Muslims who ran planes into the World Trade Center because they had such belief in GOD, they weren't afraid to die. Right. They were stupid enough to think they were going to heaven to fuck virgin goats lubed with hummus. They were religious fanatic assholes.

Shouldn't the caveat be: you can practice your religion as long as it doesn't conflict with LAW? If you want to kill animals for your religion, move to Spain and become a bullfighter. If you want to say that Elton and David are horrible people who should not be allowed to raise children in affluence, then go set up Heterostan somewhere outside of Cretinous Croatia or wherever you can find cheap real estate. You want to stand in front of mourners and shout "God Hates Fags," then don't expect to be protected on religious grounds...and face the same laws that require "freedom of speech" idiots to stay a respectable distance away from everyone else.

Why are people in such awe of RELIGION? They aren't in such awe of people who believe in Flying Saucers. But an invisible friend? All powerful? Who instantly looks down when one of the thousands, millions or billions says "Oh Lord..."???

One more thing. PAY SOME TAXES. Owning a building where only you and your loonies can babble, is hardly an excuse for not paying real estate tax.