Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>— Let’s be clear: Being <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a> is a perfectly <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/normal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>normal</span></a> part of the human experience. Being a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> and/or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a>, however, is <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dangerous</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/harmful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harmful</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/abnormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abnormal</span></a>, and utterly <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/immoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immoral</span></a>.</p><p>These practices hurt <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> by promoting <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/unfoundedbeliefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unfoundedbeliefs</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/discouraging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discouraging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/criticalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criticalthinking</span></a>, and is used to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/justify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justify</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/harming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harming</span></a> others. Religion fosters reliance on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dogma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dogma</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reason</span></a>, hinders <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/societalprogress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>societalprogress</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/serves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serves</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/levers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>levers</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/exercise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exercise</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/followers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>followers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lives</span></a></p>