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The Ohio State University website. Having announced his support for gay marriage, President Obama now faces the wrath of people who quote the Bible in opposition. A growing plurality of Americans accepts gay unions, and approval is strongest among the young.

Gabor Acs and Viktor Berki were found guilty of human trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering in the US city in February. Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible. Two men who operated a gay sex slave ring in Miami have been jailed. Every year, thousands of boys and young men fall victim to the country's flourishing sex trade.

But those who base their opposition on scripture should have a deeper cause for concern. Perhaps one of slave owners’ more innovatively cruel strategies concerned the ways they sought to completely emasculate enslaved boys and men—by denying them the right to wear pants.

The Bible seemed to approve, unambiguously, of the ownership of human beings. A lot of them are vulnerable to traffickers and sex buyers because of homelessness and poverty. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, gay slavery they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

By speaking out they hope to destroy the myth that boys are not victims of the sex trade. On February 15, Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT rights activist was shot and killed in Gqeberha, South Africa as he was leaving to. They may have forgotten that before the Civil War defenders of slavery did exactly the same thing.

In the experience of Frederick Douglass, the former slave and abolitionist, religion served only to harden the hearts of slaveholders. By Fred Nielsen.

The Bible could, of course, be read in more than one way. Opponents of gay marriage can easily find Bible verses to buttress their case. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, ) and the co-editor of the gay slavery Reviving Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.

It details widespread bullying and. Follow her on Twitter @KeriLeighMerrit. Few today would think of using the Bible to defend the divine authority of kings or to argue that seizing land from the Native Americans was ordained by God. Such beliefs, once taken seriously, now seem self-serving and misguided.

Simply put, a static, selective reading of scripture has been no match for the dynamism of ever-expanding rights in America. Their arguments, in the judgment of posterity, have discredited them and their faith. Paul, in his letter to Philemon, appeared to call for the return of escaped slaves.

Small wonder, then, that Confederates proclaimed that slavery had been decreed by God. And their beliefs had terrible consequences for those they owned. Time and again, history has shown that people who cite the Bible as a reason to deny rights to others have almost always lost.

Read literally, what could be clearer? And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever. There is growing evidence that in New England and across the United States there are likely thousands of male victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, far more than previously understood.

This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school. So, changes in law are probably inevitable.

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They have reason to be worried. Male victims of sex trafficking are telling their stories. God even rewarded him by giving him more slaves. Hungary deepened its repression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on March 18 as the parliament passed a draconian law that will outlaw Pride .