Senate Homosexuality: the Thread

Japan continues to uphold its ban on gay marriage. It won’t last forever. As the younger people are much more “eh don’t care” or supportive.

 

I know it’s a long shot but over the long run I think it’s a good idea.

Gay marriage should be codified in law. We all saw how much it did that Abortion was never codified. I know it might not do anything. Especially in the senate. But it’s worth a shot. Especially on more local level. If you live in a blue state that never made it law and just had a court decision make it legal that should be codified.

 

100%. Obergefell will be overturned by next June and protecting gay marriage should be our biggest priority.

 

Many states changed their constitutions to ban gay rights and gay marriage. It's only because of the old SCOTUS that they are protected and this new SCOTUS can't be relied upon anymore as they pursue their desired outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_law_in_the_United_States_by_state

 

Oh in good gay news Poland has abolished 4 of its LGBT free zones.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...lgbt-free-zones-must-be-abolished-2022-06-28/

 

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/tea...t-classrooms/R6VGDIOC2RFURLBUVT6TVWPDGA/?s=09

According to representatives of the county’s teacher association, teachers and staff members will be disallowed from wearing rainbow articles of clothing, including lanyards distributed by the district last year. Elementary-level teachers reported being discouraged from putting pictures of their same-sex spouse on their desk or talking about them to students.​

“Safe Space” stickers aimed at LGBTQ students may have to be removed from doors, teachers will have to report to parents if a student “comes out” to them and they must use pronouns assigned at birth, regardless of what the parents allow, the CTA reported.​

 

Partial fix, just keep going with anything rainbow, and if anyone complains say it's just reflecting God's covenant with Noah. Which would be totally allowed.

 

There are other ways of showing that your class or office is a safe space. The real trouble comes if they need to our kids to keep their jobs.

 

Slovenia legalized same sex marriage and adoption!

 

Good. The more, the merrier. I was somewhat amazed earlier this month to learn of the many, many countries that have legalized same-sex marriage and made it easier for transgender people to legally correct their genders without surgeries. I had no idea that these two lists of countries outnumbered those that have helpful abortion laws.

But, yeah. The more states and countries that can pass adoption rights for same-sex couples, the better. What I also want is more countries to actually pass laws to help the nonbinary folks.

 

I mean it’s true that the constitution can’t be changed during martial law. But it’s a good step for the future. Whenever that may be.

Also while many in Ukraine want the same legal rights for LGBT I think the real reason the government is talking about it and will probably take action on it is because they want to look as progressive as possible for the EU.

still it’s a great thing that should have happened a long time ago. More rights for more people and if you want to spin it for a more conservative person who still doesn’t like Russia in Ukraine. It’s spiting Russia as you know they will absolutely hate this.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...sex-civil-partnerships-in-ukraine/ar-AA10gvnL

 

We need more people like this, good people who fight the good fight:

In rare move, school librarian fights back in court against conservative activists (nbcnews.com)

“If this takes four or five years, I’m going to fight these people on this,” she said. “Even if I lose, I could say I stood up to them.”

I love her.

 

Also this was the dumbest thing ever. Banning men on men sex is the pinnacle of stupidity already. But they actually only had gay relations banned. If you were a women and loved another women and wanted to have sexual relations with said women that was totally legal. Just weird.

While this small step is still good on the other hand they are making it pretty clear that they don’t want legal marriage. But at least it’s not illegal anymore.

 

Taiwan is still the only country in Asia with gay marriage.

 

Well they are on the right path.

 

This is a frightening read of a thread. It's the weaponization of social media and user data into another tentacle of the "get back in the closet" push currently unfolding on the right.

 

The internet was a mistake.

 

It was a mostly good thing when it first got started but yeah it's become a monument of why we can't have good things.

 

I dunno. The most obvious example of that would be China. I don't think the type of behavior outlined above would be prohibited there. The LGBTQ community isn't exactly smiled upon by the Chinese government.

 

The mistake wasn't the internet, it was allowing everyone access to it. People are the problem. Usually are when it comes to technology.

 

In the end it all goes back to cultural acceptance. Authoritarian governments, be they right or left, still rely on some measure of popular support however small to exist. Vilifying LGBTQ is low-hanging fruit to that end in most places still to this day. Until that changes a heavily regulated vs unregulated internet is largely moot.