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This text begins by spotting the dual character of the ‘Pride Parade’, i.e. its carnival and protest aspects. The carnival aspect of this event is not legitimate because it promotes homosexuality as a socially acceptable and a normal sexual orientation. From a modern perspective of Kant’s moral philosophy, homosexuality cannot be normal, and it therefore cannot be generally accepted as a social value, because it cannot be universalized in practice, i.e. it cannot be a general principle. A world in which homosexuality would have a universal value would be doomed. Therefore, homosexuality cannot be on an equal footing with heterosexuality, which is what gay ideology requires. Heterosexuality is and must remain the fundamental and dominant sexual orientation. It is the only natural and normal form of sexuality, while homosexuality deviates from this nature and normality, even if it is doubtless that it is not a mental disease. An extremist attack on the categories of norm and normality, launched by some proponents of gay ideology, is ridiculous, but is also extremely dangerous. However, regardless of the fact that in terms of principles and norms homosexuality is not legitimate, it can still be expressed as minority sexual orientation. That is why aggressive attacks of the conservative right on homosexuals are unacceptable and are just another extreme, as bad as the militant wing of gay ideology. Homosexuals must be guaranteed certain basic human and civil rights, starting with the right to enjoy their sexual relationships and not to be discriminated against in their professional and social rights, including the right to register their partnerships. Therefore, the protest aspect of the ‘Gay Parade’ is absolutely legitimate. However, these rights have to be followed by fulfilling duties in terms of moral and social duties of procreation and raising children. Even if they cannot directly contribute to this task, homosexuals can participate in and help to achieve this significant value and goal in many indirect ways.
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In this paper the author investigates the modern phenomenon of LGBT activism as a social and political movement. The author points to the fallacy of arguments proposed by this movement and demonstrates its irrational, selective and anti-democratic nature. Concepts and differences in the fields of the public and private spheres are being considered in the context of their use by these activists. The author then demonstrates that their activism is a direct attack on the foundations of society itself and which methods are used for this kind of attack. This is followed by a description of how they make the concept of family relative and explanations of the significance of heterosexuality in society and partial significance of homosexuality. The author goes on to refute the argument about child adoption by homosexual couples and points to the concept of normality and the system of values and how they are manipulated in favor of LGBT activism. Abuse of the concept of minority and its relativity are further exposed. Manipulation and abuse of minority rights and undermining democratic principles were also mentioned. The author concludes the paper by describing the real ideological nature and motivation behind LGBT activism and its leftist origin.
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This paper attempts to exam weather “queer“ can be perceived as yet another generalized, but still particular identity (that doesn’t really makes a difference in the context of standard division of homo/bi/heterosexuality and (so called) identity politics), and offer another option in the frame of politics of universalism - “identity without identity“ as a mode of transgressing “queer“ (Badiou). It will also investigate possibilities of transforming standard activist politics into “universalized politics“ by criticizing the lack of reflection on “class struggle“ - whether it is possible or not, examining if that sort of politics has been irrecoverably integrated into liberal capitalism; connect the notion of minority identities (including “gay identity“) with war in Bosnia (D’ Emilio) and point out it thus represents a dead-end to notion of “queer“; and shad light upon the vanishing social and “lifestyle“ difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality (Bech) and thus entering “post-queer“ social future where sexual identities are deteritorialised into particular sexual practices (Deleuze) and deconstructed to the level of no identity-divisional importance.
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In first part of this article author sums up the official attitude of some Orthodox churches about homosexuality. The second part presents the attitudes of some Orthodox priests, who were faced with the problem of homosexuality in pastoral practice. According to teachings of the Holy Fathers and according to the Church`s self-consciousness, the Church is a hospital where people are called to heal the sin. Reject sin, and with love help to a sinner who repents - such is the relationship of the Church toward homosexuality and homosexuals.
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The emergence of intolerance towards LGBT people is often the subject of debate and criticism. However, the intolerance demonstrated by some gay activists - especially in societies where the LGBT movement is strong - not only towards critics of the gay movement, but also to persons thinking differently about a „gay issue“, is little studied phenomenon. In this article author, first, presented some typical cases of such intolerance, and then discussed two distinctive explanations for this behavior. Both explanations are evaluated, and, in conclusion, author once again pledged, at the methodological level, for the pluralist approach and multicausative model of explanation, and, in the field of social policy, for the full accepting of mutual tolerance in opinions and in value standpoints.
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Homosexuality has become to be considered as an ordinary ‘normal’ lifestyle in recent decades. Battles of homosexual and pro-homosexual activist still continues and are now focused on marriage and rights to adopt children. Many of the researchers who advocated and helped decriminalisation of homosexualism and extromission of it from the lists of mental disorders are today advocating the same for the pedophilia. Serbian politicians, international governmental organisations, LGBT organisations and civil society organisations funded by western governments have advocated the Law against discrimnation. This Law, proclaimed in 2009, not onlz that endangers and utterly limits the freedom of speech, but it provides measures that cherish to promote LGBT rights more than in vast majority of countries. The issue of the homosexual normality is still on the table since the research shows it is linked to several mental disorders and does itself is a pathology. It seems that there is also link between homsexualism and pederasty, but that question is only posed and not answered in this study.
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Article about gender and identity.
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Among the many controversies surrounding the work and the persona of Kingsley Amis, the one about his misogyny, allegedly exemplified by the novels Jake’s Thing and Stanley and the Women, stands out in particular. Such was the wrath of influential feminists and “honorary feminist chaps” that the latter almost did not get published in America – land of the free. What was clearly at work here was the tendency to draw isomorphic connections between the author and the protagonists of his novels, especially the nastier ones. Another major contributing factor was Amis’s increasingly irksome public persona: by the time the above novels were published, Amis had turned into something of a curmudgeon-in-residence to the nation, always ready to come out with right-wing views on virtually any topic of current interest. The paper analyses the above novels in the context of Amis’s opus in its entirety, focusing on the way female characters are generally treated in his work and on Amis’s narrative strategy, also taking into account Amis’s poetry, which, as opposed to his novels, was often confessional in character, as well as the views and reminiscences of Elizabeth Jane Howard, Kingsley’s second wife and a writer of note, which shed light on Kingsley’s attitudes towards women and his often convoluted relationships with them.
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Review of the book "Mapiranje mizoginije u Srbiji / Mapping of mysogeny in Serbia".
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The article is based on short analysis of empirical research on women's political identity and family socialization in the context of social changes in transition of Serbian society. Main results proved thesis that macro-structural factors had significant impact on women's relation to the politics, their political attitudes and behavior. On the other hand, it is obvious that the model of socialization in the family, social status, education and employment of mothers represent even more significant factors that influence women's political identity and political culture formation process in the family.
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