“Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice” - John Fugelsang. The question of LGBT rights come into play with this quote. What kind of human rights violations are LGBT people exposed to? When thinking about the answer to the question, there are a lot of themes to take into consideration. For example, LGBT rights affect government, environment, social relations, and ethics. Determining what themes human rights violations affect allows us to see how some countries have better human rights than others. Many of the countries across the world have harsh violations towards LGBT people such as prison and death but on the other hand, other countries have legalized gay marriage in all or most of their states. After seeing other countries
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In this way a person can try to push off accusations of bigotry , intolerance , etc. because it’s just a matter of credible observation as to what is and it's not a proper part of the natural order. In real life, claims about the natural order or the natural law only end up being masked for religious, political, or social prejudices. A common and simple meaning is that heterosexual relationships are “natural” because it is what we find in nature, whereas we don’t find homosexual relationships. The last one is therefore unnatural and should not be acknowledged by society. A good example of this attitude toward the “unnaturalness” of homosexuality is expressed by Peter Akinola, Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria. He says that he can not think that a man in the right mind would have a sexual relationship with another man and that even in animals we don't hear things like this.There are a lot of possible objections to this. First, humans are a part of nature, so if humans have homosexual relationships, Secondly, we don’t find dogs, cows, and lions entering into legal marriage contracts with one another. These objections point to the logical flaws in the argument, the argument is factually …show more content…
In June this year, Togue's office was broken into and his files and computers were stolen. In March of 2012, a workshop held to educate the younger people about LGBT issues was shut down.Last week, two men were given prison sentences under their country's anti-gay laws; in 2011, another man, Jean-Claude Roger Mbédé, was sentenced to three years in prison for sending a text message to another man. Men who are perceived to be gay are arrested, sometimes only on the basis of someone's suspicions, and then some are forced to undergo rectal examinations and tortured into confessing that they are gay. After the death of Lembembe, gay-rights groups said that they couldn't continue to do their work unless they are given protection. They said that they have all decided to stop their work in the field because they have no protection and feel as if their lives are at
In this way a person can try to push off accusations of bigotry , intolerance , etc. because it’s just a matter of credible observation as to what is and it's not a proper part of the natural order. In real life, claims about the natural order or the natural law only end up being masked for religious, political, or social prejudices. A common and simple meaning is that heterosexual relationships are “natural” because it is what we find in nature, whereas we don’t find homosexual relationships. The last one is therefore unnatural and should not be acknowledged by society. A good example of this attitude toward the “unnaturalness” of homosexuality is expressed by Peter Akinola, Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria. He says that he can not think that a man in the right mind would have a sexual relationship with another man and that even in animals we don't hear things like this.There are a lot of possible objections to this. First, humans are a part of nature, so if humans have homosexual relationships, Secondly, we don’t find dogs, cows, and lions entering into legal marriage contracts with one another. These objections point to the logical flaws in the argument, the argument is factually …show more content…
In June this year, Togue's office was broken into and his files and computers were stolen. In March of 2012, a workshop held to educate the younger people about LGBT issues was shut down.Last week, two men were given prison sentences under their country's anti-gay laws; in 2011, another man, Jean-Claude Roger Mbédé, was sentenced to three years in prison for sending a text message to another man. Men who are perceived to be gay are arrested, sometimes only on the basis of someone's suspicions, and then some are forced to undergo rectal examinations and tortured into confessing that they are gay. After the death of Lembembe, gay-rights groups said that they couldn't continue to do their work unless they are given protection. They said that they have all decided to stop their work in the field because they have no protection and feel as if their lives are at