Comments on: Teen Arrested In Senegal For Homosexuality http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/08/21/14162 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mark Zamen http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/08/21/14162/comment-page-1#comment-48566 Mark Zamen Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:43:04 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=14162#comment-48566 The fact these arrests have occurred, that another man is now facing prosecution, and the legal and social conditions within Senegal permit all this, constitute yet another reminder that a large segment of society, both in the U.S. and abroad, still regards gay men and women as seocnd-class citizens - or worse. That is the salient point of my recently released biographical novel, Broken Saint. It is based on my forty-year friendship with a gay man, and chronicles his internal and external struggles as he battles for acceptance (of himself and by others). More information on the book is available at www.eloquentbooks.com/BrokenSaint.html. Mark Zamen, author The fact these arrests have occurred, that another man is now facing prosecution, and the legal and social conditions within Senegal permit all this, constitute yet another reminder that a large segment of society, both in the U.S. and abroad, still regards gay men and women as seocnd-class citizens – or worse. That is the salient point of my recently released biographical novel, Broken Saint. It is based on my forty-year friendship with a gay man, and chronicles his internal and external struggles as he battles for acceptance (of himself and by others). More information on the book is available at http://www.eloquentbooks.com/BrokenSaint.html.

Mark Zamen, author

]]> By: BCCanuck http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/08/21/14162/comment-page-1#comment-48285 BCCanuck Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:44:34 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=14162#comment-48285 The arrest of this unfortunate young man is a crime against God and humankind. There are people who are so devoid of humanity that they are in essence the incarnation of pure evil. Religion is merely habitual or robotic for them. It is just another idealism for them to exploit, just another manipulative tool for them to attain and hold power, just another front for them to use to attack people. If it weren't religion, it would be something else, like a political ideology or a materialist philosophy. Same crap, different flies. I hope and pray that there is also an international outcry against this as well. The arrest of this unfortunate young man is a crime against God and humankind.

There are people who are so devoid of humanity that they are in essence the incarnation of pure evil. Religion is merely habitual or robotic for them. It is just another idealism for them to exploit, just another manipulative tool for them to attain and hold power, just another front for them to use to attack people. If it weren’t religion, it would be something else, like a political ideology or a materialist philosophy. Same crap, different flies.

I hope and pray that there is also an international outcry against this as well.

]]> By: Timothy (TRiG) http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/08/21/14162/comment-page-1#comment-48273 Timothy (TRiG) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:55:42 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=14162#comment-48273 Some things make me so angry I have nothing to say. TRiG. Some things make me so angry I have nothing to say.

TRiG.

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