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I cannot understand how parents especially can treat their own children this way. They would not treat an animal that way.
My tolerance for intoilerance is non existant at this point.
I have just about Heard and seen it all
Parents killing their children or throwing them out into the street to fend for themselves.
I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but I get so angry when I hear of things like this. 
Just recently I saw where a young Gay boy was being deported back to Iran where he will most likely be killed, murdered actually for the plane simple fact that he is gay. 
Last year, the migration board in Sweden said there there wasn’t enough evidence that he is gay and Christian so he has to go back to Iran.



I see a backward trenhd here.  The US has gone after Abortion and is close to making it illegal. Next is Homosexuality and Marriage equality This post was edited by Jon at July 16, 2019 2:31 PM MDT

The Swedish case particularly appals and alarms me because the Scandinavian countries have had a reputation for open-mindedness and acceptance - and they have accepted a large number of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa in recent decades.
A Danish acquaintance told me things have been changing there - people starting to react to the sudden influx of foreigners, feeling threatened by the strange new cultures, beliefs and customs. And the politics have also drifted right, starting to unpick the long traditions of social safety nets funded by taxes.

I would have thought it would be pretty easy to prove gay orientation via a test with a psychologist - or several if bureaucrats insist on professional consensus.

The general trend towards conservatism is alarming on many levels.
Our generation fought so hard for gay rights, feminism, the right to abortion, against the bomb and racism -
and now it seems as if all that progress is starting to unravel.
I feel so tired and grief-struck.

But I think there are lessons we can learn about how to be better activists.
I believe we need to take care to attack the harmful ideas - not the people who hold them.
We need to bring hard facts and research (of which there is plenty) to demonstrate the magnitude of harms caused by antiquated Biblical ethics.
We need to show exactly how well tolerance works in the cultures where it is the dominant way of life,
how beneficial it is for individuals, relationships, families, work and society.
We also need to show intimate portraits of the lives of people affected by these issues - in film, literature - all forms of the arts.
When the issues are up close and personal, people can often understand more clearly.
We could start by reviving some of the old films, for instance, The Set (1970), the first Australian film with homosexuality as a central theme, a homophobic father finds reconciliation and friendship with his gay son - had a major effect at the time in helping to educate public values.

Anger is a great motivating force when it's used for positive change.


This post was edited by inky at July 16, 2019 2:55 PM MDT

"Anger is a great motivating force when it's used for positive change."

Absolutely!  I am Angry as hell about this all.
I am at the age where a good portion of peer group died of AIDS.
An epidemic that could have been recognized and adressed in a more timely manner had not the "Great Deceiver", Ronald Reagan chosen this to save lives. 
Reagon and his minions in the "Moral Majority" and Christian right were to busy hijacking the GOP and turning it into the party of God.
I firmly believe Conservatism chose to turn a blind eye to the AIDS epidemic because they were praying that disease was brought by God to eradicate homosexuals. I seriously do believe that. '

This is yet another reason why I do not trust conservatives/republicans. I see their potential to implement WWII ere German Society engineering. I  believe that once Trumps concentration camps are expanded, we will see more than Immigrants in them. We will see Political prisoners and homosexuals housed there as well.

My paranoia tends to be based on fact and gut feeling and a strong knowledge of historical facts.  

I swear to this. I see this happening daily in increments.  I believe this with all my heart... This post was edited by Jon at July 16, 2019 3:30 PM MDT

Unfortunately, I fear that you may be right.
I've been having similar thoughts watching Australian and international news on TV.

The atmosphere seems historically similar to pre-WWII in Germany.
I think we are in an economic down-turn which the pollies are refusing to admit -
low wages growth vastly outstripped by increased cost of living.
The statistics don't look the same, but the rapid increase in poverty is -
and that makes people desperate.
It makes them long for a parental authority to save them -
and the authority figure is somehow thought to be the demagogic patriarchal conservative -
which, of course, only makes things worse.
It's a failure in fiscal and economic theory - but one they keep retreating to despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps it boils down to belief - an unwillingness to see reality as it is.
It scares me.
The world is about to die of global warming and,
like Nero as Rome burned,
the tyrants twiddle their thumbs.

If only they knew how much nicer their thumbs could feel in other places.



This post was edited by inky at July 16, 2019 3:50 PM MDT