You are kidding right? There were "no homos" in YU, no one dared to come out as gay, we were totally oblivious to it. There were only hush-hush talking, and that was all. Many were forced into marriages just to cover up, because of the pressure of the society. And it is still difficult to be gay in ex-YU countries.
Yeah, rural parts of Balkans lived by Customary law, and still do. You know that exactly on the example of blood feuds which were common among Albanians or Montenegrins. It is also obvious on the example of cousin marriage. Even though state law allowed marriage among 3rd cousins, Church law didn't allow marriage of 4th cousins, but Custom law didn't allow intermarriage up to 6-9th cousins depending on the area. (note that I'm not sure anymore about exact numbers in the last sentence.)
On the other hand, there were gay people living in the cities, and everyone knew they are gay and they suffered no consequences for that. Some of them were known since the late 1970-ies. Simply nobody minded their business. Once foreign countries interfered in Yugoslavian internal business and started pressuring "to give more right to the people" first incidents started to happen. People who already had all the rights they needed felt free to disturb others with their own "ideas" - and that's when we had outburst of all kinds of "-isms" which eventually resulted in the worse situation than before. Current position of gays is I suppose worse then in Yugoslavia.
Is this the correct terminology you are referring to Ike? No hate you say? I guess you think that having blue yes or red hair is abnormal too with the correct terminology. Were do you get your education from exactly?
Yes, we could even talk about hair color in similar terms, but let's not spread around subjects too much. It seems like you have a problem accepting of who you are. You just don't want to accept that you have strange sexual affiliations, and you're asking the society to bend the definitions so that they could fit reality in which you would be "by the book". Get over it dude. Accept that what you're doing is immoral and disgusting and get on with your life. Why do you need anybodies approval for that?
People usually don't hate you for what you are, but are starting to hate you because you're being aggressive in your intention to suck the approval out of them
Exactly. We know by experience of others and many hospitalisations (science) that eating sharp metal objects is not good for us. There is not even one positive example of benefit to human health of eating scissors. Now shouldn't same measure of positive and negative outcomes apply to gay marriage? You shouldn't rely on your opinion, traditions and emotions when it comes to such complicated dilemma, should you?
It is the opinion of all the competent people without political agenda or paycheck from NGO
When you compare scientific progress, of last 100 years, we didn't know much, especially in medical field. Freud was still popular and so was dr. Kellogg.
And we knew that best marriage is arranged, that drinking mercury cures maladies, that we can save heretic's sole in bonfire, sickness comes from curses and voodoo, you talk to ghosts through psychics, earth is a center of universe, etc, etc Don't you think we might have been wrong about homosexuality too?
lol, I was wrong about criminal code for gays in Yugoslavia, they were locked in Asylums and Institutes.
1. You can name 1000 things that people were wrong about in the history. I can name 1000 that they were right for. That leads nowhere.
2. Off course they were not. Name some.
Neither it makes a person with third nipple normal. But it doesn't mean it will ruin your society, and neither gay marriage.
I agree. Off course it won't by itself. I'm worried about cognitive discrepancy that will arise in the mind of human while trying to compare the external reality with false terminology that's being asserted.
Once again you judge this issue with nothing more than your feelings and prejudiced, and it is not enough for an intelligent decision.
Well, on the other hand, I think that you do that. I think that you feel sorry for the gays, and want to comply and patronize them by doing something that would make 'em feel better about themselves.