Michael Shermer Quotes
Within a decade, maybe two or three, Christians will come around to treating gays no differently than they now treat other groups whom they previously persecuted — women, Jews, blacks — but not because of some new interpretation of a biblical passage, or because of a new revelation from God. These changes will come about the same way that they always do: by the oppressed minority fighting for the right to be treated equally, and by a few enlightened members of the oppressing majority supporting their cause. Then what will happen is that Christians will take credit for the civil liberation of gays, dig through the historical record and find a few Christian bloggers or preachers who had the courage and the character to stand up for Gay rights when their fellow Christians would not, and then cite those as evidence that were it not for Christianity gays would not be equal
Within 5 years, the process began as Shermer had predicted. Several states had legalized gay marriage, and Christian groups were on both sides of the controversy when in earlier years, there were very few Christian defenders of gay rights.
Michael Shermer, President, The Skeptics Society, Is Christianity Good for the World? 2007
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At a Conservative party caucus, there was opposition to Mulroney's policy of allowing homosexuals to serve in the Canadian armed forces.
Earlier, he had opposed same sex marriage, but as the population as a whole had a change of mind on this issue, so did he. By 2013, 16 States had modified their laws to allow gay marriage.
The irony is that the Republican party not only is in general very hostile to homosexuals, supports all kind of legislation that discriminates against them, but also uses anti-gay sentiment to whip up political support for the party. It opposes making attacks on gays, “hate crimes,” Nonetheless, homosexuals, like other groups of Americans have different philosophical and political views and some of those whose views tend to the conservative camp, have chosen to support the party and work for change and eliminate the hatred and intolerance from within.
He actually proposed withholding benefits from American citizens on the grounds that they would not, in his judgment, go to Heaven. The Constitution allows no differentiation on government benefits based on likely heavenly inadmission. The vast majority of Evangelical fundamentalist Christians to not take such a position. If Klingenschmitt were not a Congressional candidate, few would pay attention to his extreme positions.
Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.
