[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Livia

Oh dear BBXX, you picked the Jewish community to demonstrate your point despite the fact that Jews are castigated on this forum and the people who say the worst things get away with it. I've had my heritage, even my family ridiculed quite recently, the posts are probably still there because it's acceptable, it seems. Israel, you see. But hey, if it helps you make your point that the gay community face bigotry, you dig into it.

I'm talking specifically about society in general, not this forum. I understand the world is a scary place for Jewish people currently, but my point remains - if there is an incident on something that symbolises a particular demographic, it's usually seen (by and large by society) as an attack on that demographic, rather than random. Whether it be a synagogue, a pride symbol, a church, whatever it may be.

Oh, it's just a few extremists who kill gays in the Middle East, is it. Islam isn't anti-gay at all, right? Actually, they feel the same about Jews and gays, I am aware how they feel about my people, I'm surprised you don't know more about it yourself.

I am aware Islam's attitudes towards homosexuality and have condemned it multiple times. People being throw off buildings is not a regular occurrence, it's an extreme one, and that doesn't make it okay but I'm saying that just because someone who follows Islam might condemn homosexuals it doesn't mean they would kill them. The same with any faith, and we shouldn't act like they would until they do. In the same way that some who follow Islam have enacted terror attacks, the vast majority have not and so they shouldn't all be views as potential terrorists.

I'll close by saying honestly, all this for a bench. Broken gravestones with swastikas? High spirits. A vandalised bench? Homophobia.

Not sure what this has to do with me, I've never endorsed that opinion.