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	<title>Comments on: Homophobia = Apartheid</title>
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	<description>Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal.</description>
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		<title>By: Regan DuCasse</title>
		<link>http://www.republicoft.com/2007/01/31/homophobia-apartheid/comment-page-1/#comment-31380</link>
		<dc:creator>Regan DuCasse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love to ask whether the persons are religious or not, just what wonderous social good has come from threatening, coercing or punishing gay people?

   After all, the sins so often spoken of that have no such similar treatment in law or tolerance, have positive results.
There is always something good to be said about preventing adultery, or divorce...or theft or murder, gluttony, etc.
   But there is no &#039;preventing&#039; homosexuality. Nor is there any result from keeping it hidden or not performed that&#039;s served any social good.

    All it&#039;s done is to embolden straight people to think that they are superior, supreme...and more entitled to God&#039;s smiles.
Regardless that they didn&#039;t choose heterosexuality.

   I demand to know, how is heterosexuality a virtue? How is fecundity, or fertility?
How are these virtues, when how a child is actually treated in life is what matters?
And heterosexuals profoundly fail themselves, each other, their children...AND gay people all the time?

    Fair questions, and so far the people who speak of heterosexuality as IF it&#039;s a virtue, and homosexuality as IF it&#039;s hopelessly irreconcilable with equal standards, truth and honest social integration...have never answered those questions.

   They know they don&#039;t have the evidence or truth on their side.
Just the numbers of people who agree. Either out of ignorance or fear, or apathy.
A terrible way to deal with a serious and legitimate social issue.

   And the inconsistency and hypocrisy in which religious &#039;sins&#039; are dealt with socially and in civil law....makes me wanna holler.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love to ask whether the persons are religious or not, just what wonderous social good has come from threatening, coercing or punishing gay people?</p>
<p>   After all, the sins so often spoken of that have no such similar treatment in law or tolerance, have positive results.<br />
There is always something good to be said about preventing adultery, or divorce&#8230;or theft or murder, gluttony, etc.<br />
   But there is no &#8216;preventing&#8217; homosexuality. Nor is there any result from keeping it hidden or not performed that&#8217;s served any social good.</p>
<p>    All it&#8217;s done is to embolden straight people to think that they are superior, supreme&#8230;and more entitled to God&#8217;s smiles.<br />
Regardless that they didn&#8217;t choose heterosexuality.</p>
<p>   I demand to know, how is heterosexuality a virtue? How is fecundity, or fertility?<br />
How are these virtues, when how a child is actually treated in life is what matters?<br />
And heterosexuals profoundly fail themselves, each other, their children&#8230;AND gay people all the time?</p>
<p>    Fair questions, and so far the people who speak of heterosexuality as IF it&#8217;s a virtue, and homosexuality as IF it&#8217;s hopelessly irreconcilable with equal standards, truth and honest social integration&#8230;have never answered those questions.</p>
<p>   They know they don&#8217;t have the evidence or truth on their side.<br />
Just the numbers of people who agree. Either out of ignorance or fear, or apathy.<br />
A terrible way to deal with a serious and legitimate social issue.</p>
<p>   And the inconsistency and hypocrisy in which religious &#8216;sins&#8217; are dealt with socially and in civil law&#8230;.makes me wanna holler.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this statement alone should be enough.

&quot;I abhor intolerance, discrimination and hatred &quot;

How anyone could embrace these ideas and feelings, or feel vindicated using them is beyond me.  When I see people preaching hateful rhetoric it makes me sad because I know most of them must be good people in other ways.  So what is it that drives the need in them to be so angry and so hateful towards certain groups?  Is it simply the human condition to seek conflict in order to unite a group to accomplish an agenda?  A lot of semi rhetorical questions but the only conclusions I can draw.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this statement alone should be enough.</p>
<p>&#8220;I abhor intolerance, discrimination and hatred &#8221;</p>
<p>How anyone could embrace these ideas and feelings, or feel vindicated using them is beyond me.  When I see people preaching hateful rhetoric it makes me sad because I know most of them must be good people in other ways.  So what is it that drives the need in them to be so angry and so hateful towards certain groups?  Is it simply the human condition to seek conflict in order to unite a group to accomplish an agenda?  A lot of semi rhetorical questions but the only conclusions I can draw.</p>
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		<title>By: Vortex(t) :: Marinelli&#8217;s miscellany #1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vortex(t) :: Marinelli&#8217;s miscellany #1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Via Terrance at The Republic of T, comes news that the Bishop Desmond Tutu is condemning homophobia in the strongest terms: “To penalize someone because of their sexual orientation is like what used to happen to us; to be penalized for something which we could do nothing (about) — our ethnicity, our race&#8230; I would find it quite unacceptable to condemn, persecute a minority that has already been persecuted.” Whoa. Maybe when it&#8217;s a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the Bishop&#8217;s unassailable stature, folks all over the world will listen? [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Via Terrance at The Republic of T, comes news that the Bishop Desmond Tutu is condemning homophobia in the strongest terms: “To penalize someone because of their sexual orientation is like what used to happen to us; to be penalized for something which we could do nothing (about) — our ethnicity, our race&#8230; I would find it quite unacceptable to condemn, persecute a minority that has already been persecuted.” Whoa. Maybe when it&#8217;s a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the Bishop&#8217;s unassailable stature, folks all over the world will listen? [...]</p>
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