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Originally Posted by Glenn.

Homosexuality isn’t a lifestyle so they hide behind religion. I feel immensely sorry for the children born to these people especially those who are gay themselves. Not quite sure what point your trying to make?

Should we accept homophobia because of someone’s religion?

It’s not even about religion so much as it is overall culture. I’m not here to say whether it’s right or wrong but if you know anything about the different shades of black culture beyond Brian Belo-type figures you’d know and even straight-up acknowledge here how different the experience is and you’d be allowed. Under a colour-blind illusion we like to pretend that we’re all exactly the same and have exactly the same values but we don’t and we’re not. And to tell you the truth black kids don’t need your sympathy (unless they align much more with the gay side of things and their parents wouldn’t or don’t like it). They just need you to put things into context and stop applying the same cultural standards that you would to your average contemporary English family with people who migrated from Montego Bay, Ilorin, Umuahia and Sudan. Unique cultural values are values and they can’t be forced to change.

I’m not trying to fall out with you, Glenn (I respect you and stuff), but at the end of the day these kids are eating jollof rice, plantain porridge and oxtail curry whereas you likely grew up on mushy peas, fish fingers and black pudding more than anything else. They do not need copious amounts of sympathy from you just for having parents who disagree with homosexuality.