Homophobia, the new case at school

Certainly, there are good news. Portugal just allow gay marriage, there are advanced steps in China, while in 2001 homosexuality was still considered a mental illness in Beijing. In our lives every day, especially when you're a city guy, one would think that homosexuality is not a problem, it is now almost totally accepted. But random, jostling in the calendar, homosexuality has been severely challenged in the world since the beginning of the year, whether in countries where it has always been threatened, particularly in Africa, but also where it isn't expected the most, Europe. In our beloved continent, it is often attacked. In France, it seems very difficult to teach respect of homosexuality in schools. A production company in Rennes (west of the country) tries to produce an animated film, Le baiser de la lune, destined for pupils to talk about love between two persons of the same gender. But a petition has been launched by the association the 4 truths (which is called "liberal right") to protest against "incitement to homosexuality intended for children aged 9 to 10 years, with support from the Ministry of 'Education'. The 4 truths do not agree that many communities are institutional partners. According to them, we must act against this kind of initiative because "it is our children that they are defending and their mental integrity is threatened by this kind of project, with the active complicity of the public " And add " The French parents are entitled to refuse the pernicious propaganda and ideology of the homosexual lobby entering into schools and classrooms of their children " In the hundreds of comments in their petition, this debate is activated among gay activists and others. Sometimes it slips like this one who believes: "But until which perversion will they go? Not content to dance naked on a chariot, gays want my kid to accept his concept of love distilling him subliminal images, even in his class lessons. Remove your child from this school which no longer fulfills its role! Stop the dissolution of morality ! No education influenced by dilated assholes! " This is top level quality. But what should have been only a petition on the net - forums where people insult each other by talking about homosexuality (or other subjects), there are hundreds - had some impact. If the academy, the city of Rennes and the Brittany region still support the project, the Ministry of Education and the Youth and Sports have requested that their logo be removed from the site of the film. There have been clearly pressures for the State not to appear. Strange from the French government to disengage itself from a project "aimed to children to fight against homophobia occurring at teenage time, after complaints by a group rather anonymous. We see the 4 truths do not call directly into question the practice of homosexuality, they denounce its "proselytizing." Another common tactic is to treat the illness. In Belgium, Sunday, January 24, Monsignor Leonard, the head of the Belgian Catholic Church, has compared homosexuality to anorexia. Guest on the set of a TV show RTL, he was asked about his positions on homosexuality, which had already been controversial. The priest said he did not condemn the practitioners but practice. It has a "philosophical decision on a trend, behavior (...) I take a comparison to clarify, a comparison that does not mean that I identify the two situations. I think anthropologically anorexia is a development which is outside the logic of appetite (...), but I can not say that anorexics are not normal. Some reacted immediately and found the remarks "outrageous." "When we make a comparison between homosexuality and anorexia, somewhere, it implies that homosexuality is a disease." Again, as the petition of the 4 truth, we do not directly attack homosexuals. It condemns from the side. In sports, homosexuality remains a problem in the West, as showed by the recent documentary by Canal + Sport and Homosexuality : What's the problem ? Frequently, it is asked the athlete to hide his homosexuality. Pretending. To go out with girls (or men for women). "Racism, everybody is against. Homophobia, there are people who do not even understand why we are working on it ". In the world of showbiz, where you might think it's easier, it is also difficult to reveal its homosexuality. The singer Emmanuel Moire has its coming-out in Tetu (French gay magazine) to avoid rumors in celebrity magazines. But while they should have, at best, does not consider the subject or be happy, they prefer to approach the issue differently. A section of the site Voici.com last week is quite edifying. It said: "Why did he confess his homosexuality?" And subtitled "The singer Emmanuel Moire returned for the first time about his coming out. So, any regrets? " Certainly in France and in other countries of the European Union, there is no (more) dead men. It is sometimes much worse elsewhere. In Russia, the mayor of Moscow quotes Gay Pride as "the work of Satan" and said that he would treat gays "with the whip". In two thirds of African countries, homosexuality is condemned by law. Uganda wants to apply the death penalty for homosexual offenders. At that point BBC has been slipping badly last December on its website, which in its programs intended to Africa, asked the following question: "should we execute homosexuals?" creating a huge controversy among English-speaking users. But these critical situations should not make us believe that among us, everything is fine.