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To: Dayuhan who wrote (13228)10/21/2003 2:50:53 AM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (2) of 794169
 
Societal taboos regarding homosexual marriage is anything but pretend. Very few individuals "pretend" about the existing realities......in fact I think most of us would be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn't have a knowledge of the existence of, and a firm opinion about homosexuality.

I'm not sure if this is pertinent, but something about the pictures beaming into our living rooms depicting daily life in Iraq is missing and it's been bothering me since the beginning of our conflict there. And I'm not sure why it is so, but where are the women in those scenes? Where were the women when the TV cameras showed the statue of SH come tumbling down last April in the town square. And why didn't I see one woman in the bleachers cheering on the horses and their riders at the newly reopened race track in Baghdad today? Why don't I see women in the market place bartering for their families meals or shopping for necessities in the newly opened shops on the main downtown streets of Iraqi cities? Does the fact that I don't see any women.....other than in teaching roles at newly reopened schools.....in any of these scenes indicate a lack of interest in women as a whole in the society we are so desperately trying to establish in Iraq?

I have wondered what part...if any...homosexuality plays in the deliberate exclusion of women from participating in the minutia of daily living in Iraq that normally takes place in other societies?

For a very long time I have been looking for this subject to be addressed on these threads. Up until now it has been taboo......so to speak.......so before anyone jumps down my throat let me make it clear that I ask these questions clearly out of a lack of understanding and an innate curiosity. But let me also state that I am dead serious when I ask.......where are the women, why are they absent from the scene and if homosexuality *doesn't* play a role then why the ban?

I don't know, homosexuality may not play a role at all. But if it does, there is no way that any kind of agreement about the sanctioning of same sex marriage will be acceptable to a large portion of our society. (and just to reiterate a common understanding; that may be because our society *is* based on the Christian faith)

And to be sure, the argument will be made, that the fundamental law being broken is the law of procreation, and that mankind didn't have anything to do with writing that one.

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