07-01-2017, 03:24 AM
(07-01-2017, 03:00 AM)kandrathe Wrote:Quote:I grant you the little piece of paper is a white male document. You shouldn't go around making assumptions of people's orientation.I was thinking that as well. Henry VIII implemented death penalty laws in 1533 for homosexuality in the British Empire, including the colonies.
And I would condemn him, just as I would present day Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sudan, UAE, etc for the same reasons.
That being said, it still doesn't vindicate the second-class treatment that homosexuals still experience in the US and other western nations. It may not be punishable by death in the context of law, but persons who fall under the LGBTQ identity are still marginalized and viewed as inferior or being "the other", even with legalization of gay marriage by the Supreme Court just a couple years ago. Being openly gay in America is still a huge risk that can lead to being ostracized at the very least, assaulted or killed at the very worst, depending on where you live.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)