Oh, as they say, Dear

[cat_77]

It's not a Pride-fest without a controversy of some sort.

Twin Cities Pride Vs Mpls Parks - The pride organizers have been leasing the area for, oh, 30 years, and the park board want to allow an anti-gay activist to lease it at the same time, despite specific laws against it. Should be fun.

I remember this guy from last year - he kept pacing along the parade route trying to both hand out bibles and tell everyone that they were wrong and evil. Had a different feel to him than the peaceful people who simply hand out pamphlets asking if we've found God (love the GLBT churches reactions to them). This guy was eventually asked to leave by the cops as he was being disruptive. Must have found his way down to the park, I guess.

What can I say? Gays: We Know Drama.

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[emeraldteal]

I'm so glad to hear about the parade. There was an Arthur/Merlin fic about them joining this kind of parade, and I felt all flaily about it because they were so proud and happy. (and I was thinking of Vienna Teng's City Hall, which always makes me cry) I think the author pointed out the same thing you did, that they younger generation didn't realize what a struggle it was in the old days. Hmm, that was an achy-happy fic. :)

Anyway, I'm so glad that you have tolerant Muslim folks over there, you have no idea. They're rare here. One of the things I have against Islam is how men like to manipulate it to suit their purposes. I believe that the religion itself is pure, but the way they go about it is like women are second class citizens. And let's not start about how they'd treat anyone 'different'. Some of it is a culture thing, being sexist... but I just don't understand when people claim to be close to God through prayers and what-not... then turn around and hate so completely. WTF.

Oooook, not the time for this ;) I'll just mosey over to a couple more of your fics and be achy-happy instead ;)

[cat_77]

A couple of us had a very similar discussion at work during the huge anti-Muslim sentiment after the New York attacks. We had several people insisting all Muslims were bad and others insisting only a few, and we counted it as a win when a fundamentalist Christian realized every religion has its nuts and every religion has a separation between the word and spirit thereof versus actual practice.

I am likely wrong as I have not studied a lot about this specifically, but was reading up on cultural history and it seemed to me that a lot of the laws were originally in place to *protect* the women, not subjugate them. Mix in a few people who learned to take advantage of that and work it to their own way over the centuries, and you have what you have now, in multiple cultures, not just one (there are fundamentalist Christians and Jews who do the same, and I'm willing to go out on a limb and assume it's like this across the board - see law/warp law/use law for own means).