Also, consider the Free Zone and Rons Orgs, they practice scientology but do not charge anywhere near what the Church of Scientology charges for enlightment.

Mike – that cartoon clearly IS judging those two men (who are presented as preening, effeminate losers with devils on their shoulders). So your ‘hate the sin, love the sinner’ argument is foundless. And if anyone is casting the first stone, it ain’t the people who are mocking this cartoon, it’s those who wrote it.

Liz – yes, please go to Scientology. Tom Cruise needs all the support he can get!

You have misrepresented the article. Take a second to try to understand the group you are mocking. They don’t believe that God hates fags. They believe that God hates homosexuality.

Your reaction to this comic is based on your perspective as a person who is gay or as someone who identifies with what you’d call a ‘pro-gay’ perspective. However, your treatment of this as ‘crazy’ shows that you are the same as those who wrote the comics in that you are unable to accept that their beliefs about the human condition are just as valid as yours. You don’t really know the truth of our existence in the same way that they don’t. Why disallow the validity of their beliefs by tagging them as crazy? You are a humanist – or at least some form of anti-theist. You have a moral schema based on assumptions in the same way they do. And you judge them and their children in the same way that they judge you – EXCEPT for the fact that they judge the ’sin’ eg. homosexuality while you actually judge the person.

Please seriously consider what I have said and think of the people who YOU might offend when you say these things. Judgment is a double-edged sword. Don’t condemn people for wanting to raise their children based on their beliefs.