| Re: Monument to homosexual victims of Nazis unveiled
you've provided no evidence that there wasn't pubic support. do you understand that they built this monument in Germany? Germany is unbelievably liberal.
Yes, you are required to tolerate people different from you in society. There is a hierarchy of legitimate needs. Equality trumps beliefs. What people can do is more important then how people feel. You have to deny that it's a fight for equality because the logic of denying people equality merely so religious fundamentalists can feel better about society is absurd. But that's exactly what it is. People in America feel that Jesus's feelings are more important the actual lives of real existent people. They wont say that allowed (or at least non-Evangelicals wont) because its not only patently wrong it's obviously illegal.
And if you don't think Jews absoultely obsess over the Holocaust you don't know any Jews.
Yes, the truth is sometimes, even often, ignored. But history has shown that while the arch of history is long it does bend towards justice.
And finally there are other monuments to the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.
It's not just about the Nazis, it's about all persecution of homosexuals, something which until very, very recently has been totally ignored in civil rights history.
If people don't talk about the persecution, and make it visible, it will continue. Every civil rights movement has proven this. |