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I've had my own experience with religion. I was baptised Catholic and did some of my sacraments such as confirmation, confession and communion. My family are not religious but did this for cultural reasons.

In my teenage years, my parents separated and I started discovering my homosexuality. I turned to religion on my own out of self-hating homophobia and distress at my parents separating. During my religious years, I was miserable and lived in constant fear of going to hell, believing I was disgusting and evil for being gay.

It got so bad that my family became concerned for my mental wellbeing. Ultimately, I left religion and became much happier for it. I respect people's right to believe in their faith and worship freely but I do not respect many of the homophobic views religious people hold because of their faith.

Believe whatever you want but if you try to enforce your religious morality on me through government power, we're going to have a problem. I don't have an issue with religious people but I despise organised religion.