"I suppose we can't rule it out entirely, but the various religions can't all be right."

"Most people are Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist, and it would be weird if God had a religion that wasn't one of the world's most popular religions? --I guess Judaism has the theory that God only really cares what Jews do."

"Why would that be?"

"The Jews are God's chosen people and they made a deal that they would keep his commandments and he would protect them and keep them safe? Like, Jewish God does care at all about what non-Jews do, but His rules for non-Jews is that they aren't supposed to kill people or commit adultery or anything. The Jews have a bunch of other rules, like they can't eat pork or do things on Saturdays and they all have to live in Jewish neighborhoods."

"There's such a lot of focus on adultery."

"Are you guys, like, okay with people you're married to having sex with other people?"

"It depends on the individual relationship. Sometimes gay people marry opposite sex for a coparenting arrangement and then they almost always have sex with other people; other types of couples are not as overwhelmingly likely."

"We do the gay people marrying so they can coparent thing, but if you had sex with other people your partner would leave."

"If gay people got married and expected each other to avoid having sex at all that would be a moderately interesting article in an Amentan newspaper."

"Uh. In our world, gay people who get into straight marriages have sex with their spouses. How else would you get babies?"

"Well, they can do it that way, I suppose, but I think it's more common to arrange it medically to avoid having unwanted sex."

"I guess in Amenta you wouldn't have to explain to the doctors that you're gay," she says doubtfully. 

"I don't think it would be medically relevant, but the doctors also wouldn't care if you were."

"Here they'd want to know why you couldn't just have sex, if you're both fertile, and... it's not technically illegal to be same-sex-attracted but a doctor's not going to be nice to you about it."

"A lot of things about your world sound very inconvenient."

"There's a reason I'm trying to flee to Cascadia! Cascadia's fine, they're just a little weird about survivalism."

"Survivalism?"

"Uh, like, everyone owns guns and keeps chickens and has backyard gardens and knows how to set a broken bone without a hospital?"

"I suppose if they enjoy the hobby."

"Well, they were nuked, that's the sort of thing that makes you think twice about stocking up on canned goods."

"I see. Well. Thank you very much for providing another perspective on God."

"You're welcome."

"Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Get me out of Gilead."

"I would like very much to be able to do that. I am concerned about the reaction from Gilead."