Is it really like this in France?

I think the problem in France, is that Muslims do not want to change their tradition and manners (if many even have manners), same goes on for example in Moscow, as they can shoot for the sky after a marriage in the ample city center having no charges shown to them, but if a Russian carries a gun illegally to protect himself he is totally ****** up. Laws in many cases are of no matter if you are a minority, you do whatever you want...

Look the video bellow, this is the Governments fault, none else. First of all our Governments should never had given the same rights to those people as they never did something to deserve the same rights. As it has been said in the video from Paris, now we Europeans gotta get used to them as they did not feel "integrated". (guess why) ....

You are right, the older ones are actually the most respectful ones. In Russia that partly delivers from the fact that their territories used to belong to USSR at the time, just saying...

Personally I don't see any possible comparison in between Muslims and Homosexuals, really....

Homosexuality might well not be the most beautiful "practical" in the world at the eyes of many people, but it is their deal, they are still working, they are still making money same as heterosexual people, government won't waste your taxes building them churches, they eat the same as everyone else, have the same customs, they don't just build their shops and restaurants everywhere, they don't try to implement homosexuality to the people surrounding them, and it is not like they "teaching" people at school or at home according to the ideals of homosexuality.

I personally dont have a problem with it, I was just pointing out those sections of British society who you dare not "offend" in contrast to those who are fair game to have a pop at, homophobic bigot I am not.

Politicians should be representatives of the people on different levels. You could write letters to your representative, when I was 16 I wrote a long letter to the ministry of education about what I didn't find correct in the national teaching system. I never got any reply but at least I tried.

pittendrighinsects, just as a reminder, you are 15 years old and maybe you should leave topics like marriage to people that have the right age and maturity to judge who should benefit from it and not. If you had lived with a partner for 40 years and they deny you to see the other at deathbed because you are "not part" of the family you will lose faith in humanity.

So, I would start by asking myself, what part of this actually causes me problems. What about this directly impacts my quality of life? How is my self-worth diminished by all this? Until you understand these questions, you will never come up with a solution that improves your quality of life.

But if it is just the mere presence of gays or some ethnic group that bothers you, I'd suggest that you seek counseling or perhaps move to a region where there are fewer people that you find personally offensive. If some ethnic group has "taken all the local jobs" go back to school and gain some useful skills. I can point to friends that have successfully put serious problems behind them with such tactics.

But they did not bore me with their whining about "insurmountable problems". Instead they figured out what the real problem was, developed a strategy to deal with it, and put that plan into action. Often times, they (and myself as well) realize that in the general scope of things, it might not be that big of a deal (in other words, the existence of something or someone doesn't really impact me directly). In that case - what are we actually whining about???

The bottom line is that if you start to view the world as a bunch of intractable problems, you will quickly become a simpering wimp living a terrible life in a horrible world. Sadly, I see people like that shuffling around all the time, whining about the president, immigration, gays in the Boy Scouts, religions and so on. They are sad little people who will never be happy in life. They feel powerless to do anything to improve their situation. They whine...

Personally, that is not a life that I would ever want to live.

Shuey