top | item 14814377 (no title) jimmyk | 8 years ago They're pretty obviously different. One is a characteristic of a person, and one is an action that can be taken by a person. discuss order hn newest wybiral|8 years ago Sure, if we're being pedantic it's hard to enforce laws against "being" gay so they enforce laws against "acting" gay.And until those countries figure out mind control it's just going to be oppression of their actions.Now that we've cleared that up, I still think laws against "acting" gay are wrong (within the same framework that it's legal to "act" heterosexual). jimmyk|8 years ago Laws against inherent characteristics seem to me at least to be worse than laws which ban behavior. Conflating the two in order to make some particular law sound worse seems sort of dishonest to me. load replies (1)
wybiral|8 years ago Sure, if we're being pedantic it's hard to enforce laws against "being" gay so they enforce laws against "acting" gay.And until those countries figure out mind control it's just going to be oppression of their actions.Now that we've cleared that up, I still think laws against "acting" gay are wrong (within the same framework that it's legal to "act" heterosexual). jimmyk|8 years ago Laws against inherent characteristics seem to me at least to be worse than laws which ban behavior. Conflating the two in order to make some particular law sound worse seems sort of dishonest to me. load replies (1)
jimmyk|8 years ago Laws against inherent characteristics seem to me at least to be worse than laws which ban behavior. Conflating the two in order to make some particular law sound worse seems sort of dishonest to me. load replies (1)
wybiral|8 years ago
And until those countries figure out mind control it's just going to be oppression of their actions.
Now that we've cleared that up, I still think laws against "acting" gay are wrong (within the same framework that it's legal to "act" heterosexual).
jimmyk|8 years ago