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Diane Brewster of Sussex East Area Meeting questions our stance on homophobia
I read the letters in last week's Friend (6 June) with incredulity – and then went back to the previous week to see what I'd obviously missed Quite honestly I'm horrified; like Tina Day, I thought the position adopted by Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee to be a good one If we publish in our Yearly Meeting (YM) documents homophobic rhetoric without explicit rebuttal, we give it legitimacy and that is simply wrong – and bad for all of us, not just our gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) members As Desmond Tutu said in his foreword to the Amnesty International book Sex, Love and Homophobia (2004): 'A parent who brings up a child to be a racist damages that child, damages the community in which they live, damages our hopes for a better world A parent who teaches a child that there is only one sexual orientation and that anything else is evil denies our humanity and their own too'
Diane Brewster
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