- dru will wait.:
- @ kafka.
My boyfriend was taught leaving Catholicism is blasphemy.
I don't really understand why or how the fact you say he says he was told something is an argument for anything.
- Lovebites xo:
- I think that religion is the main cause of any type of discrimination. Especially in the western world religion inadverntly governs pretty much everything to a certain extent. Human rights and our laws included.
Actually, when it comes to homophobia that's really not very true. Outside of mainly Catholic / mainly Protestant countries (and in some cases even in those, see, for example, Spain), homophobia was caused to a very large extent by colonialism and racism. In most African countries where homosexuality is criminalized today, the laws criminalizing it were introduced by colonial governments in order to 'eradicate' the 'unnatural' sexual behaviours of the native popular - this had a lot to do with the way imperialist / racist discourses view non-white people as 'hypersexual'. In European non-Catholic/non-Protestant countries, homosexuality was criminalized as a means of population control, because the fact that same-sex couples can't have children was seen as a threat to the state (which really wanted people to have a lot of babies so it would have a large population to send in wars etc) (this is the case especially with Russia and Romania, but other countries as well). Sure, various religions / churches did jump on the bandwagon afterwards - and that should not be excused / forgotten, but that doesn't mean they were its main cause. It's important not to assume that homosexuality / homophobia are transcultural / transnational universal experiences - because they're not.