How Homophobic Are You?

[catlover]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/etc/quiz.html

19 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

 

[brightmorningstar]

Assuming 'gay people' means they have same-sex unions.

48 - Your score rates you as "non-homophobic."

But by dictionary definition I am as homophobic is considered views opposed to same-sex practice.

 

[Sylvanspirits]

26 - Your score ranks you as "non-homophobic".

Yay.

(Technically 18 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic.")

 

[David Brider]

8 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."
Which isn't really much of a surprise...

David.

 

[David Brider]

Assuming 'gay people' means they have same-sex unions.

It doesn't - it refers to same-gender attraction.

David.

 

[Sylvanspirits]

I read several of the questions wrong. Stayed up too late last night, and my brain is still waking up. My actual score:

18 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

 

[Ryanswife]

I scored a 26.

 

[catlover]

It doesn't - it refers to same-gender attraction.

David.

Can gay rights be separate from homophobia etc? I am curious can a person be opposed to say gay marriage but not be homophobic? Say the person's religious convictions are dear to them and cause them to believe marriage is only between a man and a woman?

 

[Ryanswife]

I am opposed to gay marriage, but I do not consider myself to be homophobic. I have a few very close gay friends and even though I may not agree with their lifestyle...I still love them dearly.

 

[itisdeliciouscake]

contrary to popular belief, the majority of christians are not homophobic. just a select few that make a name for themselves (ex. the phelps) and stain people's view of Christianity.

 

[catlover]

contrary to popular belief, the majority of christians are not homophobic. just a select few that make a name for themselves (ex. the phelps) and stain people's view of Christianity.

When I think of homophobic, I think of people who claim AIDS is the gay plague and those who blame homosexuals for the downfall of society...I do not know if I believe a person who believes homosexual sex is a sin is homophobic. I have to think about that more.

 

[brightmorningstar]

Can gay rights be separate from homophobia etc? I am curious can a person be opposed to say gay marriage but not be homophobic? Say the person's religious convictions are dear to them and cause them to believe marriage is only between a man and a woman?

Its a good point but whether I am considered homophobic or not an issue for me. What concerns me is believing in and thus following Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit according to the historic apostolic gospel once delivered and in the Bible.

 

[seeker777]

24 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

 

[Zaac]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/etc/quiz.html

19 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

Perhaps yall can expound for me. But I have never understood this homophobia thing. Why would someone have a phobia of homosexuals? Do yall bite(STRICTLY RHETORICAL )

If I don't have a phobia of opposite sex folks who choose to fornicate, why would I have a phobia of same-sex folks who choose to fornicate?

 

[Ryanswife]

My brother-in-law is what I would consider to be homophobic. He hates gay people and if a gay man were to hit on him he would probably become violent with them. He doesn't want them anywhere around him and if they were he would be very ugly to them. I could totally see him going "gay bashing" (I guess that is the correct term). I have heard that peoppe who are homophobic like that...secretly have those desires and are reflecting their own self hate on to the other person. I don't know if that is true or not, though...

 

[seeker777]

I can't think of any other explanation that would you have surmised.

 

[Zaac]

My brother-in-law is what I would consider to be homophobic. He hates gay people and if a gay man were to hit on him he would probably become violent with them. He doesn't want them anywhere around him and if they were he would be very ugly to them.

How do you know that he hates them? He might just dislike them. Because someone doesn't want to be around gays does not mean that they hate them.

 

[Washington]

5 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic."

 

[Ryanswife]

How do you know that he hates them? He might just dislike them. Because someone doesn't want to be around gays does not mean that they hate them.

He says that he hates them.

 

[catlover]

How do you know that he hates them? He might just dislike them. Because someone doesn't want to be around gays does not mean that they hate them.

What if somebody stated, I just do not want to be around fundamentalist Christians...I just dislike them, but I do not hate them??