Sentences with phrase «homophobic society»

I also fretted about it because Jamaica is a very homophobic society, at least it was back then.

I'm sensitive to anyone dismissing arguments of sexism or homophobia, since we live in a patriarchal and homophobic society.

In our July - August 2012 issue # 83 Gay Parent magazine features the story of a lesbian couple with a young son learning to live within the homophobic society of Tanzania.

A gay man's lover has died of AIDS and he tells a reporter that he is comforted by the hope that his friend contributed to overcoming the prejudices of a homophobic society.

Yet authors in the present volume repeatedly assert about themselves what Boswell complains is unfairly asserted by a homophobic society.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Not exact matches

If the reaction is negative («homophobic»), marginalization is achieved, which brings with it both the desired victim status and a vindication of one's claim that this is an intrinsically hate - full and oppressive society.

As such, the theocratic, Sharia - imposing - supporting, deeply - and - widely - homophobic, extremely - feminism - nightmarish Islamic societies are not what threatens and frightens the Left the most.

The Home Office knows that gay people in Afghanistan are persecuted by the state, Afghan authorities, and by homophobic individuals across society.

Ministers from across the world will join leaders from civil society and multi-lateral agencies to address school - related homophobic and transphobic violence at an International Ministerial Meeting hosted by UNESCO on 17 - 18 May.

But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism.

Ultimately, as the Court rightly notes, the issue here is hurt feelings — people's outrage at the idea of a homophobic institution being allowed to freely operate not too far from the seat of power in society.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Do law schools or law societies screen out applicants who hold sexist, racist or homophobic beliefs?

That is, would it not be reasonable therefore for the law society, in the public interest, to ensure that every candidate to the bar should not hold racist, sexist and / or homophobic beliefs?