It goes beyond Catholicism here. In Texas, we have a large population of Evangelical, Baptist and Lutheran where they are always, always raising a shit storm about how their religious freedoms are being trampled on yet have no problem with pushing their agenda on others.
This isn't the first time they've pulled something like this either. High teen pregnancy rate? (Texas is 4th in the country,) Teach abstinence only education! Lead the country in divorce by volume? Let's make it so that it takes 60 days before a judge even reviews the filing.
In many ways, this is just reinforcing my attitude that I should relocate as soon as humanly possible. Preferably the New England or Southern California regions. I'm sick of living someplace where half the population is viewed as nothing more than a broodmare for the state.
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