#promoting equality

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GOD, WOMEN: Insisting on having jobs and going back to work after having kids, don’t you know you’re causing a rise in gang killings?

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TEL AVIV, Israel | Gays on strike in Israel over exclusion from surrogacy law

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TEL AVIV, Israel | Gays on strike in Israel over exclusion from surrogacy law

TEL AVIV, Israel — Thousands of Israeli LGBT advocates and their supporters went on strike across the country Sunday, protesting the exclusion of gay men from a recently passed surrogacy law.

Protesters marched in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities on Sunday, waving rainbow flags and briefly blocking a major highway.

The community is outraged that after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to pass legislation supporting surrogacy for gay fathers, he then voted against it, apparently under pressure from his ultra-Orthodox Jewish coalition partners.

Hundreds protested near Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem. Eyal Lurie Pardes, a protester draped in a rainbow flag, chanted: “We will not remain silent!”

“Look me in the eyes and tell me I don’t deserve to be a father!” he said.

Footage aired on Israeli TV later showed police pushing him into a police car. Israeli police said two people were detained and then released.

The protest has grown into a general call for equality, following other recent controversial legislation that appeared to target Israeli liberalism.

The protest has generated widespread support and hundreds of employers said they would allow employees to observe the strike without penalty.

A major rally in Tel Aviv’s central Rabin Square is scheduled later in the day.

Israel has emerged as one of the world’s most gay-friendly travel destinations in recent years, in sharp contrast to the rest of the Middle East where gays are persecuted and even killed.

In Israel, homosexuals serve openly in Israel’s military and parliament, and many popular artists and entertainers are homosexual.

However, leaders of the gay community say Israel still has far to go in promoting equality.

By Associated Press

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Don't feed me that feminist crock-o-shit that women can do everything a man can do on post with him. And don't feed me that patriarchal crock-o-shit men can do anything women can just as well as them either. There are specific things that each can do better than the other. If you want true equality, I get it and support that in every way - racial, gender, lgbt, whatever you are you're my equal. But that doesn't mean you can do everything as well as me and vise versa. You going to see me run a 5k well? No. Do those people play videogames as well as me? More 'n likely not. If you want TRUE equality, set the take for it, but don't make everyone eat the same ham sandwich. Some of us prefer turkey. Some don't like meat. We're all human, so while there's feminists, racists, (no comparing the two in any way besides promoting the goal of one group of people as their group sees fit) and others like that, I'll be a HUMANIST. I love humanity, not any part of it more than the other.