This is wrong on so many levels. But it is the common right wing meme right now -We’re not homophobic at all, compared with the Muslims. So why are you libs so hard on us?

Klingenschmitt, Limbaugh, all of these right wing whiners, are playing this game of misdirection. It reminds me of some of my seventh grade students complaints that I am unfair because ______ is so much worse. Wah Wah.

First of all, there is not one “Muslim” attitude towards homosexuality, any more than there is one “Christian” attitude about it. Secular majority-Muslim societies such as Turkey and Indonesia have flourishing gay and drag communities. Islamic states, not so much.

I still get way too many emails from old friends of the family, complete with vivid, erotic descriptions of (presumed) Muslim sexual practices, usually involving putting objects in the anus. I mean, whatever floats your boat, but it just sounds like sour grapes because they’re not enjoying that particular fun hobby. Anus envy.

It’s all projection – like everyone else, right-wing Christians have a 25% rate of domestic violence and a 10% rate of child sexual abuse (but because it’s such a big fricking secret , it can go on for years without interference), they project sexual violence onto the religion they love to hate.

“See, we can’t be that bad. Look at those ragheads over there. That woman in a hijab – she must be abused…not like my wife. And I bet they beat up gays, too…we never do that.”

The cure for any religion that wants control over sexuality is the same. Separate religion from politics. Be fully humanist, fully secular, fully science-based.