Quintium wrote:Meryuma wrote:If you try and impose global law? Yeah, you're right. However, that's not the only way to go about changing perspectives in those countries. Perhaps some people in Gaza Strip might change their views on both homosexuality and Westerners if they heard about Queers against Israeli Apartheid.
To be honest, I very much doubt that. With the customs in the region, the religious and legal precedents on the issue and the excessive political power of fundamentalist clerics, I think those 'Queers against Israeli Apartheid' will always be a lot better off on the Israeli side of the wall.
Not every Arab country is theocratic. Jordan, Qatar and the West Bank are all relatively low-key, though far from being on par with Western Europe.
Valtakuntia wrote:Luveria wrote:"I'm not a homophobe guize, really. I care about the UN using its resources efficiently, we can't save starving children and advance gay rights at same time."
It's a shoddy as fuck attempt to hide homophobia.
*sigh...*
How am I hiding homophobia? I think gay marriage should be TOTALLY legal, and the LGBT community should not be denied rights or be prosecuted in any way.
HOWEVER, there are a few things that I think are more important than civil liberties (shocker, I know), i.e. children not starving to death. Imagine you're a starving child in Africa, and someone tells you that you don't have food because some of the nations that are wealthier per capita, than, say, Rwanda, by several orders of magnitude, care more about the right to marry who you want than someone else's right to live.
Imagine you're a man sentenced to death for having sex with your boyfriend in Sudan. Meanwhile, white people on the Internet are implying your problems don't exist and claiming the fight against homophobia is a distraction from the "real problems".
