So say North Carolina’s Catholic bishops in a letter supporting the Amendment 1 ban on gay marriage. Well, I guess that settles it! It can’t be discriminatory if they say it’s not.
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not from a queer muslim but totally relevant
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THIS. <3
Hillary Clinton: Gay people are born into and belong to every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it, or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbours. Being gay is not a western invention. It is a human reality.
We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.
The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.
“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.”
The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked.
“So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.”
(Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com)
WARNING. The things in this post can and will probably upset you. This is a long post, but I believe that everyone needs to at least read this.
“I’m not hiding. The only reason that I don’t have a tumblr is that it has been deleted when I started telling the truth about gay people: that you are…
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