"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.“


-Harvey Milk

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

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