Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Moral progress

We can beam with pride over the progress our country has now made with marriage equality.

A quick internet search on the humanities sweep of moral arc toward Justice:

Five countries still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.

While women represent half the global population and one-third of the labor force, they receive only one-tenth of the world income

At least 20.9 million adults and children are bought and sold worldwide into commercial sexual servitude, forced labor and bonded labor.

Atheists living in 13 countries risk being condemned to death, just for their non-beliefs

Thank god I'm a member of only the last of these....

---Steve

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