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Gay parents.

Tell this to my friends, 2 women, that are pregnant.
You think they are not able to raise a child as good and loving as a straight couple?
I, for sure, am convinced they will.

But I have to admit that it is a little bit scary to read that this organization gathered 13000 signatures against gay adoption.

It clearly shows there are 2 strong movements: one stream in favor of gay rights and one in the opposite direction.
I guess that's the part that scares me.

The fact that our world is polarizing is frightening.
Everything turns out black or white, while actually it should be full of colors.
It sometimes looks as if there is no in-between anymore.

I don't know why, but when I read stuff of the interbellum, in the 20's and the 30's, it sometimes makes me think we are in a similar situation now.
On the one hand these amazing events (artists in 'mondain' Paris started what would be know as the basis of contemporary art, Coco Chanel designed short dresses, women and men in swimming gear, Art Deco, but also pretty active gay life (check here), dance halls. And many more amazing events.)
The after war situation was pretty optimistic in the 20's. It changed, due to economical crisis in the end of the 20's, and polarization started.
In Germany, due to their high debts because of WWI, the situation was worst, and explains why Hitler was very popular.

Sometimes it feels like the similar things are happening now. Bad economical situation, anti-semitism, anti-islamism.
And events that are a perfect ground for fear.
Vlaams Belang say the next elections will be an important milestone for them.
I guess it is a painful truth, which I regret.

They always say that such a thing isn't allowed to ever happen again. -And probably it cannot happen anymore in the way it did, but the ideas of those people never changed.-

To me that's an as important danger as the danger they preach.