Progress...

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something's wrong: I've been notified by email that Cinjin Cain has replied to Aerzia Saerules Arktuos, but the post does not exist here. where is it??
It is not the first time such thing happened. Did he delete the post or some error occurred?

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Giving gays and lesbians the same civil rights that you currently enjoy is progress. The majority of people who don't see that are most always religious people.

Now I know that it is a bit deviated from the main subject... but, I live in an ex-communist country, and most people (or at least, most [male] men) here see homosexuality as very misplaced and disgusting and the word "gay" sounds ridiculous, whether they are religious, agnostic, atheistic, or anti-religion. And when I say "homosexuality"/"gay", I mean male with male; it seems that lesbianism doesn't look ugly, at least to most men. And, from what I've heard, when the country was still communist, homosexuality was unlawful and those who were found practicing it were being thrown to jail.

What I've found in wikipedia:

Homosexuality has sometimes been labeled by communists as "one of the effects of capitalist sociality" and the product of the bourgeoisie

As for communism nowadays, I found:

Currently, none of the six existing communist states recognize same-sex marriages, civil unions, or registered partnerships. There are also no anti-discrimination laws in place, but homosexuality is legal in each country.

By the way, Communism was not religiously based. On the contrary, it taught the theory of evolution, was atheistic, and quite anti-religion (and obviously, it despised religion).
Two links about communism and religion, if somebody is interested, which I've just found:
http://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1685228.html
http://www.nocommunism.com/communism-and...-religion/