Jeff Goldblum spills piping hot tea on Ru Paul's about Islam and homo/transphobia. Twitter gets paradoxically and hypocritically mad.

[Lexi.K]

There's people bringing up Christianity already. I see where they're coming from, but such equivalencies cannot be made.

Yes, Christianity is often used to uphold misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, but I feel the religion as a whole is more receptive to change and progress in comparison to Islam. There are far more LGBT affirming churches, far more prominent Christian people that support LGBT rights, and Christian majority countries don't tend to make queerness a crime in comparison to Islamic countries.

Let's not kid ourselves. Christianity is still a threat to women and sexual minorities in the West, particulary in the United States, Latin America and Eastern Europe with the political prevalence of the Christian right, but it's not near the extent it is to women and LGBT people in countries with a Muslim majority. Those countries are theocracies, of course they are worse.

We need to discuss Islamic homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. Maybe Jeff Goldblum didn't bring up the topic in the best way, but people do a disservice when these talks are made and they bring up Christianity.

Discrimination from Christianity doesn't negate nor erase discrimination from Islam.

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In 2013, the Pew Research Center conducted a study on the global acceptance of homosexuality and found a widespread rejection of homosexuality in many nations that are predominantly Muslim. In some countries, views were becoming more conservative among younger people.