(October 16, 2011 at 6:55 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Teen suicide over the stigma of being gay should be on extreme decline & not on the up as society becomes so much more sympathetic.
The problem is that as society becomes more tolerant, the fundamentalists become more militant in their bigotry. This happens as any oppressed group fights for equality.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell