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Ockrent is right to point out that the anti-gay elements marching in France are different from out Tea Party -- for one thing, they include a lot of Muslims, as she acknowledges (Islam is a major source of anti-gay attitudes in western Europe now). But there are similarities, too. In both cases there's a noisy minority that claims to represent the majority (while probably knowing, deep down, that it doesn't), and feels agitated by the speed of social change. In both cases, too, their cause is doomed in the long run.
ReplyDeleteInfidel -- There has to be a better way to cope with a rapidly evolving society. Scapegoating and targeting gays, as you said, is a lost cause, and they will only paint themselves as retrograde and intolerant.
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