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Sep. 3rd, 2008 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easySo I thought I'd cheer myself up by watching The Making of Me avec la Barrowman. There's lots of lols, but I defy you to watch the bit with Pete, who was subjected to the whole Clockwork Orange bit in an effort to torture teh ghey out of him, and not want to have a little cry. JB is appalled to learn that homosexuality was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1980. He wonders if, had he grown up there instead of Illinois (the first US state to drop its sodomy laws, in 1961), he might have been one of the many gay kids who take their own lives.
To balance that a bit, here are some cute dogs.
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murasaki_1966 pointed me to a New Scientist news item: Bisexuality passed on by 'hyper-heterosexuals'. "How can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation? The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children." Interesting... now do the same experiment with lesbians!
To balance that a bit, here are some cute dogs.
ETA: That reminds me -
murasaki_1966 pointed me to a New Scientist news item: Bisexuality passed on by 'hyper-heterosexuals'. "How can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation? The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children." Interesting... now do the same experiment with lesbians!
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:15 pm (UTC)http://www.equalitygiving.org/Sarah-Palin-on-the-issues-Equality-Quotes-Gay-Rights
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Date: 2008-09-04 10:39 pm (UTC)Last week I heard an interesting show on Radio 4 by a great journalist called Jon Ronson. He was talking to a chap from Los Angeles who became a born-again Christian, but lost his faith when the Catholic child abuse scandal broke; he said he saw too much evidence of the church covering it up. The final nail in the coffin of his faith was when he learned that many priests known to be abusers were seemingly shipped up to Alaska, where they perpetuated horrendous abuse of eskimo children on a huge scale - when the victims came forward they were offered $10,000 each by the church to keep quiet.
That's all I can think about now when I hear the words 'Christian' and 'Alaska'.