We found the brain structures that set sexuality six years ago, they indicated that sexuality was set in the womb (although we don't yet know how) and every psychological organisation on earth has ruled out choice. Are these lunatics ever going to catch up or is this yet another tenet of teh right-wing faith?

Whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other faith, if you engage in a literal interpretation and application of historic religious texts you box yourself in.

As science begins to unlock many of life's mysteries, if those discoveries and understandings conflict with a literal reading of historic texts you have no choice but to reject science. There is no other choice for these people.

Rather than understanding these texts, especially the Bible, as only quasi-historic and in many cases allegorical or illustrative rather than literal, fundamentalists believe every word has come down to them in unadulterated form from on high.

So whether it is climate change, sexual orientation, evolution, etc. if the holy texts contradict science the holy text prevails for them.

As a Christian, I have no problem with understanding the creation story as beautiful and simple. I see it as a story that people of the time would understand. But now that science has largely explained the origins of life on this planet and evolution describes a process by which life has advanced and improved over time, I understand that as the creation story. I still enjoy the creation story from the Bible for its simplicity but accept it as allegory.

These people cannot do that.

That is, constructed through experience with the deity (Father Lucifer in my case).

On some level, I have to wonder if the need to believe these things on a literal level is feeding some other psychological need. Purely on an anecdotal basis, I have found that many "Bible Believing" Christians are among the nastiest people I've met and so, I have to wonder if they don't want to hold this as literal so they can imagine people they disagree with burning in hell. A kind of religious revenge fantasy.

someone else's religious freedom does not infringe on my freedom?

God, I wonder what it's like to live your life constantly under siege.

Here's a thought. Y'all use the phrase "The Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit" That connotates that all 3 are God in one big mutant deity or whatever.

You keep pushing the meaning of the beginning of life so far back in the process that soon you will reach the point of believing it begins when the thought of a child occurs.
If so, then did Jesus have sex with his mother?

Inquiring minds want to know.

re her use of the word "Fredom"