Word: homophobia
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...teachings of Jesus in the radical light in which contemporaries would have viewed them, portraying Jesus as something of a socialist. Gomes doesn’t write in a vacuum, however, and he includes numerous mentions of current socio-political situations—the war in Iraq, Sept. 11, homophobia, and race relations—to convey how Jesus’s teachings apply to the modern world.Yet where Gomes’s book falls short is not in the message it presents, but in the way it presents it. Gomes is good about writing accessibly, but for those with...
...date is expected to be blonde and white, and that a date who does not fit these criteria is potentially “embarrassing”—is what deserves conversation. As a shared understanding, it undermines the similarly popular idea that sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are too backwards for Harvard. Students and professors who complain of them, so this thinking goes, must be overly sensitive, crying “injustice” where none exists...
...Cabinet posts. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer who has been convicted of slander and assault, became Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister, while League of Polish Families leader Roman Giertych, the former head of an ultraright nationalist youth group with a reputation for anti-Semitism and homophobia, was anointed Education Minister...
...Explicitly, you could say there is a problem [of homophobia] in reggae and dancehall, but it's in every type of music to a certain extent," says Stuart Baker, owner of the Sounds of the Universe reggae record shop London and the record-label Soul Jazz. "It is part of dancehall, but it doesn't define it... [Stop Murder Music] are justified in protesting their corner...
...other reggae purists, most of the homophobia has been generated by dancehall music - the genre's aggressive offspring - and is not considered to be a true example of the reggae ideals of peace and mutual tolerance...