A Bigotry Bounty

[erudito]

On of the basic ideas in welfare economics is Pigouvian pricing, such as a Pigouvian tax. The idea is to impose on users the unpriced negative effects of what they do.

Youth suicide is a serious issue. A wildly disproportionate number of youth suicides are by young homosexualsSuppose a tax was imposed on monotheist religious organisations

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[fizzyland]

Even among the more liberal christians I've met and the fact that divorce is heavily censured in the Bible and homosexuality is barely mentioned, the truth is that they don't even blink at divorce but still get all worked up over homosexuality. It's a double-standard the entire community seems unwilling to examine, sadly.

Easy target

[erudito]

The same-sex oriented are relentlessly picked on not because they are the greatest threat, but because they are the least threat. The most easily isolated.

Anathematising them has always been a relief from the demands of the Gospels. Your example is just another instance.

[usekh]

What makes me sick is that many of these very same groups that vilify homosexuality and make life hell for some many young gay men and women..turn around and point to higher suicide and depression rates as to why it is an 'unhealthy lifestyle'

Ugh.

Bigotry is invisible to itself

[erudito]

Bigotry is invisible to itself, because it is merely describing the world "as it is".

So, being invisible, it has no causal role.

So anything bad which happens to the objects of stigmatisation has to be their own fault.

[claidheamhmor]

I like the idea!

I don't understand the bigotry. Last week, I was off at the wedding of my sister to her girlfriend. It was great - everyone had fun, and it went off very well. My sister's spouse's family, though, is rather religious, and to preserve their sensibilities, the public ceremony was done framed as a civil union. When they went to sign the marriage register, though, they re-did their vows, and this time it was formally recorded as a marriage, not a civil union.