Though I am a believer in the right of self-deliverance in the face of inescapable terminal illness, I'm nearly speechless and wordless in the face of the suicides caused by the vehement, venomous vocabulary of religious, flat-earth thinking spewed in public meetings and the media.
I'm reduced to involuntary head-shaking when trying to understand how the insidious poison of religion infiltrates young minds and dissolves the normal urge to live.
Religion has always been the mental fog in the road of human progress, from Galileo and Copernicus to stem-cell research to the legal recognition of citizens without regard for their sexual orientation.
It would appear that until more of us recognize the futility of religion, the false authority and violence it visits on innocent people, we'll see more GLBT suicides as roadkill on the human highway.
The link below provides a video of the ill-fated Norman, Oklahoma city council meeting.
Oklahoma's Zach Harrington, 19, Kills Himself After Hateful Town Meeting
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