Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Prop 8

I have been a huge fan of Keith Olbermann for some time now and tonight he gave one of his special comments that lambasted the Christianists/Mormons/Catholic hierarchy for their hate driven support of Proposition 8. Olbermann is right that their perverted form of religion - which allegedly is based on love - in practice is about anything but love. Hate, intolerance, meanness, self-congratulatory self-righteousness are what dominate their unloving religious beliefs. In practice these haters care nothing about the LGBT lives they harm or destroy nor do they care about the straight spouses who are harmed when LGBT individuals enter into marriages that are doomed to fail because of the unchangeable nature of one's sexual orientation. Having been married for 24 years while I was in deep denial about my own sexual orientation, a portion of his special comment truly hit home:

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"And uncountable in our history are the number of men and women, forced by society into marrying the opposite sex, in sham marriages, or marriages of convenience, or just marriages of not knowing -- centuries of men and women who have lived their lives in shame and unhappiness, and who have, through a lie to themselves or others, broken countless other lives, of spouses and children... All because we said a man couldn't marry another man, or a woman couldn't marry another woman. The sanctity of marriage. How many marriages like that have there been and how on earth do they increase the "sanctity" of marriage rather than render the term, meaningless?"

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The more I see of the Christianist version of Christianity, the more I see it as an evil and clear and present danger to democracy in the USA and the survival of our constitutional system. Watch Olbermann's special comment:

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