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Brazil May Make anti-gay Speech a Hate Crime


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A bill in the Brazilian legislature has already passed its House of Representatives and supported by the president will make anti homosexual speech a crime. If anyone speaks or acts to prevent actions of "homosexual affection" in public or private locations open to the public, they could face up to five years in prison for doing so.
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18 responses // Brazil May Make anti-gay Speech a Hate Crime

  • And I suppose the scientist who finds a way to make homosexuals normal sexually will go to prison for homosexuality-icide. I suppose we can also expect legislation outlawing the notice that someone has a harelip? Club foot? Will I be charged with a hate crime if I don't invite a homosexual to my kid's birthday party?

    I'm sorry - not really; it's just an expression - but I think people have a right to dislike other people. The guy who rides his damned, thundering motorcycle past my house every morning at about five, for instance. I don't like fat people and the slovenly habits that made them that way, either, or those who use foul language. Is that a hate crime?

    This is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous.
    Walks_in_Storms
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  • I question the Catholic New Agency's accuracy in describing this. It's one thing to go after the guys who lurk outside of gay bars with tire-irons in hand, but speech? Brazil? Really??
    huntre
  • First off Walks_in_Storms.......being gay IS normal. It's the religious imposes their fairy tales on everyone else that needs to be dealt with.

    However, I do agree that people are allowed to hate whoever they want. Who's the bigger biggot, the one saying the hateful things or the one imprisoning them for saying it? It all sounds like prejudice to me.

    Second off: There is no Second so get offline and go do something with your lives.
    NoGodsNoMasters
  • good, it is a hate crime and should be labeled as such.
    jh64487
  • I don't think any non-threaten form of speech should be made illegal, even if it is hateful.
    VitaminB2
  • I think this is an idea whose time has finally come.
    jubal
  • Gay is normal? Well, yes - as normal as any other of fifty common birth or congenital deformities. To the degree that it is accepted as normal, it will never by cured - for gays, almost the classic example of shooting oneself in the foot.
    Walks_in_Storms
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  • As Long as they pass a bill against gay's harassing and
    anti-straight speech...I've been whistled or Dissed at 2.
    Blackfoot777
  • VitaminB2, there's an old saying that says often your opposition is the only one who will tell you the truth. As one who has funded research to help homosexuals (I've also helped fund Alcoholics Anonymous operations a number of times), I happen not only to speak the truth, I put my money where my mouth is. I also know that no matter how many times you repeat a lie, and even if millions agree, it's still a lie - and has nothing to do with reality.

    As I said, if we were to treat other physical and mental aberrations like we're treating homosexuality, the world would be full of people miserable and mal-formed and miserable for no reason other than the blind ideology of people like them. LIke militant feminism and other ideological nonsense, proponents of pretending that homosexuality is normal condemn many, many people who need and want help to remaining in the same state as their militantly confused fellows.

    Don't confuse compassion with hate - it brands you a bigot.
    Walks_in_Storms
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  • All things considered, I think it's a good idea.
    Brockie
  • Being gay is perfectly normal and people who don't think it is not normal have some sort of agenda in mind.

    Live and let live, keep you nose out of other people's bedrooms and private lives. It is because of people who are anti gay that we have so many people suffering needlessly in this world.

    Personally I wish I had the power to put all the haters in the world out of their misery and send them to their heavenly paradise as soon as possible.
    jubal
  • As a young gay brazilian man who moved to the US in order to achieve dreams that Brazil's homophobia would never allow, I am happy to hear that..
    Brazil617MA

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