(March 30, 2019 at 1:18 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Makes me think twice about taking my daughter there in a few years as I had planned.
She's named after the city on the left of Brunei, Miri.
This is the problem with religion. It is not enough to say, "I am religious, but I wouldn't do that." Not the point. The point is regardless of what you don't do, other people with different interpretations are still drawing their conclusions from the same religion/holy book. Worldwide, most of the world, including Asia and Japan, most of the world still frowns on LGBT. The west certainly doesn't go about murdering LGBT anymore, but even in the west it is still condemned by the religious to greater or lesser extents depending on geography/sect.
That goes with any religion in the world. I love liberal empathy, and there are liberal theist worldwide in every religion. I love that aspect of my fellow humans. I only dispute where they claim their goodness is coming from.
Find me a Muslim who defends gays, we can find plenty who don't. Find me a Christian who defends gays, we can find plenty who don't. Even in Japan, there is only one prefecture in a small city in Japan that has just gotten around to making civil unions legal, the rest of the country tolerates gays, but still does not allow them to marry. China doesn't allow it either.
