Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi wrote in 1924 in his publication: Young India - where he called for "the death of homosexuals"
and wrote that in two different issues of that magazine. And when his wife became sick - he denied her drugs which
she died from. Yet he then became sick with the same illness and took the same medication, that he denied his wife!
Religion was the reason! Like the popular caste system and throwing the surviving widow alive on the dead husbands fire.
While there were left wing groups and publications condemning this - others were silent - and none defending LGBT.
Many nations leftists have refused to challenge arrests, beatings, torture, medical experiments, murders of LGBT - due to religious "faith".
Look at the various left press when they wrote about this in nations around the world. And in the U. S. left, it was almost only
the left wing anarchists who did.
Much of the U. S. left had adapted and accepted religious backwardness and failed to support those being harmed.
They knew and did not care, because they reasoned that their interests were "the workers" and of course the perverts
were thus "not the workers" they wanted. So ignore all those imprisoned and horribly brutalized.
Instead of accepting wrong - one should combat it. And I work with faith believers as an open Gay socialist.
Some are famous and leaders of their different faiths. But it was not the U. S. left that brought that about sadly.
Religious prejudice is accepted by some or most leftists - showing opportunism and disregard for principles of
"workers of the world unite"
And the Roman Catholic Church has been the worst of all the organized religions, in simple documentation on the
immense blood and damage over two millennium of records, of the lands and people it targeted and exploited, etc.
From: Michael Meeropol <mameerop@...>
If anyone is willing to actually read a book about these issues, I highly recommend KAREN ARMSTRONG'S book (probably over 15 years old) THE BATTLE FOR GOD. It investigates the tension between fundamentalism and a more balanced approach to religion in
the three ABrahamic Religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) --- it is a tour de force --- with lots of detail ---
Armstrong is a former nun who is probably fluent in Latin and Arabic (don't know about Hebrew) ----
(she also wrote a biography of Mohammed which I have not read) ....
Religion is a mixed bag --- Martin Luther King was a believer ---- a practicing minister --- there were revolutionary Cathoic Priest throughout Latin America over the past decades ---- Gandhi was a Hindu as is Modi --- there are pigs in all religions
and there are wonderful individuals in all religions ---
100% generalizations (including this one of course!) are always wrong ...
