If Religion Is Not Just a Metaphor for Superstition,

[Major Nikon]

55. I'm also fine with that

My son is gay which in our household made absolutely no difference to us. Most of his friends have very different experiences some of which faced years of "conversion therapies" and other horrific experiences most of us will never fully understand and in virtually all cases precipitated from fucked up religious false morality. One of them moved into our home after being kicked out of his at the age of 14 by his fundamentalist parents. One of my cousins committed suicide after years of drug addiction caused by her devout family trying to turn her into something she was not. A fundamentalist co-worker has the most dysfunctional family you can imagine all rooted in his children (now adults) rejection of his false morality.

Meanwhile hard data is difficult to come by because people tend not to self-identify LGBT and the strength of religious conviction is hard to quantify. However, it's estimated the suicide rate of LGBT youth is about 5 times higher than their peers. You'd have to be pretty naive to think religion doesn't have a significant role to play in that, and not in a good way.

That's just one aspect of it. You also have "purity" campaigns organized pretty much exclusively by organized religion that fucks up lives in all sorts of ways, not to mention generations of religionists who teach their female children to be subservient to men because the bible tells them so.