Over the last couple days evangelical Christians (at least the ones I’ve been hearing) have expressed a lot of outrage over the US Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage. With that in mind, I thought I’d offer a short list of ten things that seem to me to be more disturbing than gay marriage. Here they are in no particular order:
1. Presently there are between 21-36 million people enslaved around the world. 22% are sex slaves. (Source)
2. We are currently in the six mass extinction of earth history, the greatest loss of biodiversity in tens of millions of years. And it’s human caused. (Source)
3. Over the next several decades, human-induced climate change will produce hundreds of millions of climate refugees. (Source)
4. The total value of global military arms trading in 2011 was in excess of $43 billion. (Source)
5. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean (consisting of human debris like plastics, chemicals, and other garbage) could be twice as large as the continental United States. (Source)
6. North Korea is presently facing a famine that could kill tens of thousands. (Source)
7. Approximately 15,000 child slaves work in the Ivory Coast. (Source)
8. Saudi Arabia has publicly beheaded 84 people so far in 2015. (Source)
9. In their quest to privatize water supplies, corporate giant Nestlé argues that water is not a fundamental human right (Source)
10. While pigs are among the most intelligent non-human creatures on earth, millions of breeding pigs spend almost their entire lives in gestation crates which render them virtually immobilized. (Source)
