A majority of Christians are in the global South, just as a majority of working people (peasants, wage workers, workers in the informal sector, etc.) are in the global South. And just as there is a North-South economic divide in the world, there is a North-South sex divide in the world, too, between nations and within nations, which is not surprising, for the latter in part stems from the former. (There also are economic, historical, and sexual differences between areas in the South, Africa and Asia being more conservative on homosexuality than Latin America. Cf. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Views of a Changing World, June 2003, <http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/185.pdf>, p. 114) If we don't make efforts to bridge the sex divides, we'll end up on the wrong side of the multiple divides.
> (Just like leaving the Democratic Party).
A group of white Southern working-class people did leave the Democratic Party just as Southern Black folks won entry into it, but since then the party has found it difficult to win the South. If we manage to replace the Democratic Party by another, the task of holding onto both Blacks and white workers will still be there, though a party with a better economic program than the DP may possibly make it easier (but even leftists have yet to agree on the need to create such a party). People may leave a party or religion, but few of them leave their country, and in the end we have to find a way to progress together. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>