Sawing off the Branch you are Sitting on

Vicky Gene says “religion hampers gay civil rights“.

In fact, of course, God is the only thing that guarantees that we have any rights at all. It is only God, as revealed in Scripture, who is the source of our rights. If rights are merely a fiction granted by the state, or another way of saying “Whatever the strong will” then nobody, including gays, has any rights at all. A society steeped in the Christian tradition can hold the notion of inherent human rights to be self-evident. But no other. Because, empirically speaking, there is nothing whatsoever self-evident about equal rights–or about rights at all. Only a society in which it is taken for granted that man is in the image and likeness of God can believe that, being such, he possessed certain God-given rights.