Despite Actions of a Handful of Religious Leaders - TN Set to Pass LGBTQ Discrimination Bills

[MineralMan]

7. Not all relgious leaders and clergy members are anti-LGBTQ, of course.

Over 100 publicly oppose this Tennessee legislation. That group joins many others in opposition, and that's a good thing. Why more do not join in this, I do not know. I do not live in Tennessee, so I have no reliable way to gauge the opinions of the religious in that state. I do know that many Christian right preachers rail against LGBTQ people from their pulpits, in Tennessee and elsewhere. Religious belief, in general, seems to have little relevance to opinions about those issues.

For example, the Roman Catholic Church in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, where I live, spent millions of dollars fighting the passage of same-sex marriage laws here, while at the same time fighting against revealing information about Minnesota priests who had sexually abused children. Clearly, religion, in itself, is no guarantee of proper moral and ethical behavior.