Despite this, the forthcoming Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) in Sri Lanka has elected not to discuss the issue of anti-gay discrimination.
Commissioned by the Kaleidoscope Trust and compiled by LGBT activists throughout the Commonwealth, the report calls for Commonwealth countries to repeal anti-gay legislation, with an immediate moratorium on enforcement.
“If you look at the world as a whole, around about 40% of nations have state-sponsored homophobia,” said Kaleidoscope’s spokesman, Douglas Pretsell.
“Half of those – about 54% – are in the Commonwealth. If you look at the rest of the world not inside the Commonwealth, it’s only 24.5% – so the Commonwealth has a big problem.
“These are laws that make it illegal to be gay.”
Tell me how many men are imprisoned in these countries just for being gay?
Or for buggery?
On a scale of one to nothing?
On a scale of one to nothing?
There is an economy of gay campaigning - you make money by pretending things are far worse than they are.
Just as there is an economy of gay journalism - where you accentuate the negative.
Just as there is an economy of gay journalism - where you accentuate the negative.
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You say that the laws that criminalise homosexuality are meaningless if they are not applied. I disagree. Laws, whether applied or not, can have a pervasive influence on the way the rest of a society treats people who are isolated by the law - here 'the gays'.
ReplyDeleteWhere the State criminalises certain sexualities it clearly discriminates, which sends the signal to the rest of society that it is acceptable for them to also treat those persons differently (and negatively). Such discrimination will naturally lead to the State denying recognition of certain relationships. This can have the obvious effect of persons in those relationships having to forego rights that are otherwise endowed on others. However, it can have more pervasive effects in terms of the treatment those persons are afforded by society generally, and the consequential negative psychological impact such treatment has on individuals deemed unworthy of the State’s recognition.
Okay, but it's obscene to pretend gay men are being imprisoned or killed when they are not.
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