[Kael]

Originally Posted by erimir

I liked this well enough, but I did not like the original article that the kid was responding to.

Yeah, for me whether you believe something is a sin or an abomination is right at the heart of the issue, and to believe that any significant portion of the population will be able or willing to treat people they truly believe are tainted or evil with anything like human dignity and respect is... I don't know... starry-eyed idealism, maybe, doomed to disappointment. In any case it's not going to happen.

The discrimination of any class of people only goes away when the stigma of their behavior/circumstance/appearance/etc. fades away. It's nice to talk of peace despite stigmatizing rhetoric and dogma, and love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin, but people just don't work that way.