Wednesday, September 8, 2010

not dining with Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir for religious reasons


Jenis av Rana


Jenis av Rana is the chairman of the Christian Centrist Party of the Faeroe Islands. He managed to make international news by stating that the visit of the Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir to the Faeroe Islands with her wife was "a defiance of the Bible."

Dining with the Icelandic prime minister is out of the question because for Jenis av Rana "to do so would be to show acceptance of gay marriage, which is against the platform of the Centrist party."

This example shows how homophobia based on a theological argument excludes and dehumanizes non-heteronormative people at all social levels (even if they are prime ministers). Because homophobes like Jenis av Rana cannot conceptualize queer persons as equals, to the point of sharing food.

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

Great blog - and i agree - i am from Iceland ,and bloged also about this on my blog

Anonymous said...

unrelated to the post, but worth the read : http://think.hotnews.ro/mitul-%E2%80%9Euterului-ratacitor%E2%80%9D-este-isteria-tipic-feminina.html

lukacs said...

@Dori thanks!love your PM :)

@Anon mersi de link, foarte interesant sa apara asa ceva pe hotnews, intrebarea este de ce se scrie acum despre isterie in Romania? plus, este interesant cum dna psiholog reimpune sterotipiile de gen fara o critica sociala a afectiuni cu pricina

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