Strange Bedfellows

I was watching a reenactment of the hate crime of Matthew Shepard on the new (new for me) gay-themed channel LOGO. It’s called Anatomy of a Hate Crime. It was hard to watch. It brings back too many horrible memories for me.

But what I thought was really strange were the commercials inserted here and there from the Christian’s Children Fund. I have nothing against the Christian’s Children Fund. I have a lot of issues with religion in general. Basically, in one statement...

Religion is the single cause for most of the wars in this world, 99% of the reason people are killed, and any message of hope that the Bible had has been lost in a message of hate and intolerance.

And that, in a nutshell, is the problem I have with religion. As far as LOGO, the gay themed channel goes, I want to ask them, “What the hell man?!? What are you thinking? Religion has been used time and time and time again against the people who are your target audience.” It was just strange. It’s probably just me.