Courtesy of Pink News, we have this appalling cartoon produced by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. A mother teaches her daughter why same-sex marriage is wrong, and why you can’t get to Heaven if you’re in such a marriage. Truefact: the loving Jehovah won’t let you in if you don’t follow His rules, and one of those rules is no gay marriage!!!

The Disney-esque production belies a message of pure bigotry:

Note the mother’s claim, “People can change!” That is, being gay is a choice, and you could have chosen otherwise. That’s only one invidious result of religion’s insistence that people have libertarian free will.

The late rock star Prince was a Jehovah’s Witness, and, as the Associated Press reports, a true believer:

The two met while playing separate shows in Nashville, Tennessee, in the mid-1990s and Prince asked Graham [Prince’s bass player], who was a Jehovah’s Witness, to come on tour with him. Graham said Prince was deeply interested in the Bible and they would talk about it for hours. “He asked me questions every day, every week — sometimes we would bring up the sun talking about the Bible,” he said. Later, Prince asked Graham if he would move to Minnesota to continue teaching him about God and his faith. He accepted, and Graham and his family relocated from Jamaica, where they had been teaching Bible school. Prince’s interest in the Bible grew and eventually he came to the conclusion that he, too, wanted to become a Jehovah’s Witness, Graham said. Later, Prince began worshipping at a Kingdom Hall just outside Minneapolis. Graham said he considered Prince to be his “spiritual brother.” It was important to Prince, like many artists, to give his fans joy with his music, Graham said. But the most important thing to him was not just giving people a “temporary feeling” from a record or album but being able to share scripture, he said. “His joy — his biggest joy — was sharing the hope of everlasting life,” Graham said.

I wonder if Prince thought that everlasting life was barred to those in a gay marriage.