The bullets killed. The shots damaged. The mass shooting planted fear first and foremost. Even three days after the crime, much is unknown about motive and sanity. Yet we know enough about the consequences of this for completely innocent people. It is in the cool and destructive nature of terror that the goal is to spread fear, and that indirect goals are just as conscious as direct goals. Although this may not be a criminal offense, it has the same function. The shots are said to have been fired at 01.15 on Saturday night. Witnesses say that people run in panic from the area outside the nightclubs Per on the corner and the London pub. Photo: Gunnar Bratthammer / news Scary 50 years ago, the police could detain gays with the law in hand. Both Saturday and Monday, the law enforcement has met the superiority, and is unable to secure the queers’ own party. Which more than ever should be everyone’s party. It is responsible. But it is first and foremost sad. The response of society at large must, of course, be something other than restricting the freedom of assembly and expression to take a stand. The minority can not be sent out in the rain and thunder at their own risk for their own safety when they are at their worst. The queer minority needs protection, not recommendations for cancellations. The queer minority needs to experience unreserved support. Not only do they need it. They deserve it. A liberal, democratic state governed by the rule of law must stand up for its citizens, especially minorities. Most minorities under pressure, exposed to attack. “I’m safe,” several announced Saturday morning. Saturday night, Monday afternoon and Tuesday, the police say “not necessarily”. Our security services give the impression that many of our fellow citizens are still under an ongoing terrorist attack. It’s scary to take over. Many people defied both the Police recommendations and the rain and showed up to show their support for the queer environment on Monday night at Rådhusplassen in central Oslo. Photo: Håkon Benjaminsen / news Identity The testimonies have flowed in recent days. Those who put words to the lump in the stomach, the sorrow in the heart and the mind in the head come up with important descriptions of what this is basically about: Maybe it’s best if I do not live? If there are no people like me? Should I just live as someone other than who I am, but what kind of life would that be? How many adjustments should I make in my life to not be “so gay” and exposed in public? Do not kiss or hold hands? Dress me differently? They write that they are painfully aware of the fear, prejudice and condemnation. The whole scale from “fucking gay” in the schoolyard, a “shit” from passers-by on the street – to the will and ability to kill. They write that they are exhausted, scared and angry, but not surprised. Everyone should ask themselves if this is the way it should be, and the answer should be obvious. Security and defining power The queer minority primarily asks for two basic, basic things: Security and defining power over their own situation. The vast majority of society is willing to give it to them. Of course. Basic security is one thing. It will be safer to be queer if more people rise up against the small comments that can have the big consequences. Within the framework of democracy, there are legitimate reasons and plenty of opportunities to discuss the struggle for rights and the political dimension of the queer minority community. The use of flags and the celebration of pride is not about individual issues, but the simplest issue to support: That everyone should have the right to be themselves and to love whoever they want. When it’s what they say themselves, others should stay too good to redefine it. If you take from someone the defining power over themselves, you take from them the identity. A majority society can hardly understand the situation and position of minorities if one is not able to listen to them. When queer people say there is a tougher debate in social and editorial media, they must be believed. Many are persecuted for their beliefs and opinions. Homosexuals are condemned for their basic identity. His love. As who they are. The most naked personality. There is something fundamental about this that must characterize the exchange of words about gender and orientation in the future. Religious leaders, especially in conservative religious circles, have a special responsibility in this discourse. Several religions and interpretations of them date from a time when queers did not have a place in the public eye. As mentioned, this also affected the legislation of society at large in our time. Then the legal, political, attitudes and actions have undergone a revolution in a few decades. Some religious circles have not followed this development. For many, it is fundamental that religion has fixed, clarified answers to right and wrong that stand the test of time in different societies. A religion that is out of step with its contemporaries is at the same time of little value as a guideline. Therefore, different faiths themselves must take the initiative to put into words on their own terms how they meet queer fellow human beings’ cries for humanity. The opposite of love is not hatred, but indifference. It must be reflected: the opposite of hatred is not love. It is to refrain from dealing with the hatred that does not affect yourself. The queer struggle must be waged by more than themselves. The fact that someone hates, also obliges all those who support.
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