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In reply to the discussion: A reminder to think before you speak - Israel and Palestine edition [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)This nation has been anti-gay until just recently. I mean, fifty years ago, most citizens here were virulently anti-gay.
And we are still against women, yet we use as a selling tool for our wars the fact that women in other nations wear a burkha. (Women here wear a burkha also, as the societal requirement that we all be a size 4. We women have to be anorexic in order to qualify as "real" women. I didn't eat a real meal from the time I was 19 until I was 24.)
Yet women I know who go into the Armed Services have had very degrading and dangerous things happen to them, at the hands of their "fellow" service people, and nothing is done about that?
Anyway, I was posting about the issue of people desiring for kids to grow up in peace. What that has to do with being gay, I don't know. You are aware that of the many kids recently killed in Gaza, some of them w ould have grown up to be LBGT, although I am hoping you are not suggesting that only the gay children in that crowd should be mourned.
BTW, one Barack Obama did not openly support the quest of gay people for their civil rights until recently, as he was trying to appeal to the rather conservative types of fellow African Americans who don't support being gay. But he gets a free pass, doesn't he, no matter what!