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Posted by AV on May 16, 2008 at 4:02 pm
The organisers of this event should team up with those behind the National Day of Reason.
Posted by ninglun on May 16, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Or the other way round, perhaps.
I suspect the set of supporters of the Day of Reason would not completely coincide with the set of supporters of the International Day Against Homophobia, though I would hope most followers of reason would see opposition to homophobia as reasonable. The agenda of the Day of Reason is broader, after all, but also rather specific. I would like to see such unreasonable people as New Agers, believers in or followers of whatever religion, or members of whatever culture, also feel at home with the International Day Against Homophobia — even if they remain unreasonable in other areas.
Posted by AV on May 17, 2008 at 7:11 am
Well, yes: homophobia is as much emotional/intuitive as it is doctrinal (probably far more the former than the latter), and supporters of the Day of Reason, being human, have the capacity for unreason, as much as religious people and New Agers, also being human, have the capacity for reason. We all compartmentalise to a varying degrees, I think.
But embracing the agenda of the Day of Reason might encourage people to (i) subject their own dispositions towards GLBTIs to critical scrutiny, and (ii) support/demand a far more evidence-based approach to public policy regarding GLBTI rights (e.g. same-sex marriage, etc.).