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HUMAN SACRIFICE

Call it what you will, but modern societies around the globe respect and permit human blood sacrifice.  It's an outrageous claim I make, easily shrouded and disguised with semantics. But at the end of the day the story is clear: human lives are being sacrificed to an angry god.

The Aztecs mostly ripped out the beating hearts of the warriors of defeated nations on stone altars before statues of their demanding god. American Christians leave their gay children to die abandoned and left to starve or freeze to death in cardboard boxes in dark city streets.  Muslim mothers and fathers send death squads in the dark of night to stone, shoot or decapitate their gay children.  But they also make this blood sacrifice of innocent children on the altar of their own demanding god.

An extreme analogy?  I'm not so sure.

How can free societies that are rooted in universal human rights, equality for all men and civil rights for all citizens turn a blind eye to an epidemic of children abused, tortured, abandoned and in too many cases murdered by their own parents?

What constitutes an epidemic?  Conservative statistics estimate that there are 40,000 homeless gay children living in these United States because they have been thrown out of the Christian homes or fled for their lives.  While there are many child protection laws in the United States mandating responsibility on the part of parents for their children, Christians continue to get a free pass. 

A UK charity is dealing with an increasing number of young gay Muslims becoming homeless after fleeing forced marriages and so-called honor violence.

Honor violence is daily practiced in most of the Muslim world.  When a child comes out or is suspected of homosexuality, most Muslim countries give families the legal right to murder the child in order to preserve the honor of the family. 

At least the Aztecs did not murder their own innocent children.

A British newspaper reports the case of Suni, a 20-year-old London student  now living in a homeless shelter provided by a local charity.

In 2008, during a holiday to Pakistan to visit relatives, his parents suspected the truth about his sexuality. They believed marriage would "cure" him of what they considered to be a psychological disorder.

"They told me I'm going to be forced into marriage and they're looking for a girl and I'll be married in two to three months and I won't be able to come back to London," Suni said. When he refused, he was imprisoned in his family's ancestral home in a remote village of Pakistan and subjected to regular beatings and abuse as he had brought "shame" on the strict Muslim family.

Suni managed to escape and return to the UK, penniless and homeless. Relatives and friends were reluctant to help him due to fear of violent reprisals from his family. After a night spent in a police cell, he was put in touch with the trust, which helped find him safe accommodation.

The UK Charity says that in the past six months there has been an increase in the number of Muslims coming to them for help. "They face threats of physical violence, actual violence and restriction of liberties," she said. "We've had people chased out of the house with knives and we have had issues around young people who had exorcisms planned to get rid of the gay demons, I suppose.

"They come to us because they're homeless, or in danger of being homeless imminently. We sort out emergency accommodation for them.

"But the biggest loss they face is the loss of their families. "I can't imagine what it must be like to suddenly in your late teens, early 20s suddenly not to have a family anymore."

Using new laws introduced by the government in November 2008, the charity has taken out four Forced Marriage Protection orders in the past few months.

The orders were introduced after the British government dropped plans to make forcing someone to marry a crime. More than 80 have been imposed so far. Breaching one is contempt of court and can carry a two-year jail term.

A  closeted Muslim member of the British organization explains: "You see people being killed for being gay and stuff. I think I'd be vulnerable if people knew about me. "I've heard a lot of remarks in the past about people saying that gay people should die for religious reasons."

A special U.K. government unit tackles the issue of forced marriages. Every year it deals with around 1,600 cases of forced marriage. Three-quarters of all calls are from people of South Asian origin.

One police officer said gay and lesbian youngsters were particularly vulnerable. "A few weeks ago, an individual got in touch with the unit to say he'd been taken to Pakistan, forced to marry against his will, brought back to the UK then denounced by both his new wife and his family for his sexuality. "He'd been subject to physical and other abuse. When he rang us he was scared to leave the home and we had to secure police protection."

The teen was escorted from his home by the police and taken to an LGBT shelter.

And we think of the Aztecs are savages simply because they engaged in human sacrifice as a religious practice.

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