Salvation

1984, Duane Michals:

No American citizen has the right to impose his private morality on any other American citizen, which is exactly the political agenda of some organized religions today. Millions of women have been victims of these churches’ intrusions into their most private and painful decisions, whether to have or not have an abortion. Millions of gays and lesbians have been victims of these churches’ assaults on gay rights legislation, which would simply protect them from housing and job discrimination, rights assumed by all heterosexual citizens. If one does not have the freedom to make his most intimate choices without fear, one does not have any freedom at all.