JW's Anti-Gay position puts them in the axis of ignorance

by scotoma 64 Replies latest jw friends

  • fulltimestudent
    fulltimestudent

    India also is 'dark!'

    During the British occupation of India, the British government of India decreed a law code that criminalised men who had sex with men. It's know as section 377. (Notes 1 & 2)

    A retired Australian High Court judge, (Michael Kirby) made representations to the Indian High Court judges that such a law had no place in a modern society. (which raises the question of whether India is a modern society, or still a pre-modern society?) In 2009, an Indian High court decision deleted section 377 and de-criminalised sex between men. There was an outcry from the dark religious forces that control Indian society, and in December 2013, the High court re-criminalised sex between men, on the basis that the clause should be removed by legislation. This is unlikely, as there are strong Hindu influences in the present government and the main opposition party (Bharatiya Janaata party) functions as an arm of Hindu religous interests.

    In the near and medium term future, Indian society is likely to remain dark.

    Note1: Have not checked on whether this section also penalises women who have sex with other women. However, even if it does not, women who move slightly outside the social limits are punished in many ways. There have been instances of gang-rapes of women suspected of being lesbian.

    Note 2. Section 377 is also a problem in Singpore. The People's Action Party, the governing party in Singapore, recently refused to remove this law, which again had been inserted into the law code by the British. The principal opponents are Islamic leaders and (guess who?) the Christian churches, demonstrating again that Christianity is NOT a fit religion in modern, pluralist societies.

  • Apognophos
    Apognophos

    Oh, I thought that island above Australia was NZ, looks like it's Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Weird, I always thought that was NZ. Oh well.

  • kaik
    kaik

    Homosexuality was decriminalized in France in 1791 under pretense when no crime is involved among private act of two consenting adults. The debate if homosexuality is a crime were made through much of the 19th century when even medical science believed that sodomy is not crime or mental disorder. This view was silenced during the puritan awakening under Victoria. For example Austrian criminal law wanted to decriminalized it in 1851 and there was already medical studies and conference lead by Purkyne. However, his early death prevented decriminalization of homosexulity through much of the Austrian empire and its descending countries. This happened in Czechoslovakia in 1961, in Hungary 1962, while in Poland 30 years earlier. Either way, from 1850's onward, the medical science had not considered homosexuality as a disorder, but its voice was silenced by politicians either during Victorian era, or under National Socialism.

  • Space Madness
    Space Madness

    How is not supporting same sex relationships ignorant? You learn in high biology that the human body evovled to accomadate male-female relationships only. If anything the people who support same sex relationships are ignorant for being anti-science.

  • kaik
    kaik

    Relationship among two adults does not revolve around biology, SM.

  • LisaRose
    LisaRose

    Not all Christian religion teach against homosexuality, they do not follow a strict interpretation of the bible. I think that this will become more the case as time goes on, the United Church of Christ is one.

    People love who they love, I don't think science has anything to do with it.

  • Space Madness
    Space Madness

    @kaik

    Everything concerning the human body envolves biology, from medicine to reproduction. Same sex relationships are unatural as they can't lead to reproduction. Basing a law on that undeniable fact does not make a person ignorant. You may disagree but they are certainly not ignorant.

  • fulltimestudent
    fulltimestudent

    Spacemadness:

    You learn in high biology that the human body evovled to accomadate male-female relationships only.

    Do you have any children, spacemadness?

  • Space Madness
    Space Madness

    @fulltimestudent

    No.

  • fulltimestudent
    fulltimestudent

    Not trying to be personal, Spacemadness.

    So since you have no children, can it be suggested that since you believe that sex exists purely for procreation, and since you have no children, then you have refrained from sexual activities, including masturbatory sex?

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