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POPE TO CHURCH: BE MORE ACCEPTG OF DIVORCED CATHOLICS, GAYS AND LBIANS
It is the latt attack on LGBT rights the untry, after another anti-gay law was extend last year. * gay tolerance in europe *
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And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. If someone says they accept or reject homosexualy, that cisn is as potentially important as the way that measure, now that the veats are out of the way, here are a few takeaways:(1) Sub-Saharan Ain and Mlim-majory untri are the least acceptg of 's not even close.
European natn stat creasgly hail LGBT inti as part of morn valu; LGBT regnns have bee a symbol of secular achievements. Disurs around gay rights and sexual diversy are creasgly pted agast prumably homophobic and tolerant ‘others’. An creased tolerant and reprsive attu towards migrants and racialised mori is jtified by their supposed threat to exactly the valu. LGBT tolerance is ed as a marker for morn valu and this posns LGBT people as ‘borr patrollers’ who n unt as part of the morn liberal natn. This paper analys 92 terviews wh LGBT participants who live six small and medium sized ordary ci Europe. It discs how their fear of homophobia is evaluated acrdg to perceived sexual norms and attus at the neighbourhood level. Neighbourhoods are nsired eher LGBT iendly or uniendly acrdg to their soc-mographic characteristics that foc on social class and/or migratn and that tersects wh race, ethnicy and relign. Based on the fdgs, neighbourhoods are both a geographil and a cultural terra that n be unrstood, anised and ntted through a sexualy disurse the productn of borr regim that disciple and produce the nf of the normative, the ‘morn’ and the ‘backward’. Not only are LGBT people posned as borr patrollers but they exprs their fear of homophobia also through borrg. The neighbourhood n then be unrstood, anised and ntted through a sexualy disurse the productn of borr regim. * gay tolerance in europe *
Only 2 percent of Pakistanis and Tunisians – who are generally nsired smopolan by Miast standards – said society should accept be clear, though, some Christian-majory untri also overwhelmgly say that society shouldn't accept homosexualy: Ghana and Uganda, both sub-Saharan Ai. S., Canada and South 's an tertg tail om Pew's report:Attus about homosexualy have been fairly stable recent years, except South Korea, the Uned Stat and Canada, where the percentage sayg homosexualy should be accepted by society has grown by at least ten percentage pots sce 's actually grown most quickly South Korea, where's 's more than doubled om 18 to 39 percent.
Pope Francis’ “Amoris Laetia” urg Catholic prits to wele gays and lbians, divorced Catholics and others livg nontradnal fai. * gay tolerance in europe *
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4 This paper go on to explore how through this lolised fear of homophobia, LGBT people themselv practice ‘otherg’ of those ducg homophobia; the workg-class and the non-whe populatn specific neighbourhoods the six ordary inti and regnns are creasgly hailed as part of morn valu and viewed as markers of achievements of Wtern mocratic cln. Homonormativy ‘others’ those wh the LGBT muny on the basis of a failure to assiate to heteronormative stctur; those who nnot or will not assiate to the stctur wh s assumptns and stutns of marriage, reproductn and also nsumptn (Rapcewicz 2016; Hennsey 2000).