“Most, if not all, of those people [will] sign the report with their names, but they’ve confided in me they’ve been reluctant to put their names out in the public domain for fear of some vilification, strangely not from the non-gay community, but rather from the gay communities and other people who perhaps haven’t yet appreciated the work we’re doing,” Searle told JOY.

Having been sidelined by the JCCV and ignored completely, in a hostile fashion, and being further marginalised I feel justified in making this assumption.

The gay rights activist (me) is made out to be the big bad bully, when in fact it’s quite the other way around. John Searle is the one who doesn’t want to talk to me, and refuses to answer my questions of him.

Sigh.

GLBTI people were in camps, and stood side by side people of the Jewish faith, as victims of the ideology of a master race. I would hope the eternal lesson is we are all deserving of the same dignity and respect, and the idea one group of people should be punished by birth is wrong, and diminishes all of us as a society.