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Cambodian Prime Minister Speaks Out Against Discrimination
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No. 2 ·
Mooz
@the other Greg: “At worst it’s traditionally regarded as a threat to procreation ..”
I believe that this is where all homophobia stems from.
Dec 16, 2012 at 11:33 am · @Reply
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JohnQPublic
Hun Sen, former Khmer Rouge soldier, unofficial dictator of Cambodia and all-around homophobe, seems to have had some sort of conversion. If you look at the link below, you’ll see him quoted in 2007 as saying he wanted to disown his adopted daughter because she was a lesbian: “I have my own problem — my adopted daughter has a wife,” he said. “Now I will ask the court to disown her from my family.” http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/10/31/us-cambodia-lesbian-idUSBKK11415620071031
Dec 17, 2012 at 2:13 am · @Reply ·
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No. 5 ·
Mooz
@the other Greg: I’m sure they were not worried about your procreation, they were brought up into thinking that gays are evil and should be punished. Where did that come from? It starts from a very early age when boys and girls are conditioned into a certain type of behavior to assure that they will become typical heterosexuals.
Dec 17, 2012 at 11:59 am · @Reply ·
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Quibble: King Norodom Sihanouk didn’t die in 2004, he abdicated back then and died a couple months ago in 2012. Actually I was expecting Queerty to make some cute comment about his son the current king, the dancer, maybe seeming sorta/kinda gay.
Buddhist countries tend to have a more relaxed attitude about homosexuality than monotheistic countries do. At worst it’s traditionally regarded as a threat to procreation, since in a country without a “social safety net,” having children to provide for you in your old age is your only hope of not ending up as a beggar on the streets. (Although they’re kinder to their beggars on the streets than we are, too.) A fate that most of US would be heading for, were it not for Social Security and our 401(k)s (if any).
And there’s probably the sense that Cambodians have enough to worry about, getting over that 1975-79 genocide.
It sounds like an awesome & relatively inexpensive tourist destination, with the mind-boggling Angkor Wat.