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Is it? I wouldn't know about that. Have you looked up the correct definition? I have. Let's see:Oh yeah I forgot: it's easier to corrupt the English language so you don't have to go through the trouble of looking up the correct definition.
Merriam-Webster online said:irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
Rape is very different from consensual sex.but if you absolutely need examples, try these:
1) i disapprove of a specific homosexual activity known as jailhouse rape.
Um, that isn't what people who accept the theory of evolution believe that evolution is or how it works.2) hypothetical Guy Bob disapproves of homosexual activity on the grounds that procreation is the only logical usage for sex. Turns out Bob's an Evolutionist and believes in evolving beyond the lust response to experience a higher pleasure, and a higher love than human love.
A little crazy? Also, one would assume that this particular fictional crazy chick would hate homosexuals, since they "cause her dog pain"...3) Suzie is a little crazy. She isn't scared or angry about it, but she thinks every time a homosexual couple makes love it causes her puppy dog piercing joint pain, and that makes Suzie cry sometimes.
Except that one can very well be a Christian and understand that the particular sections of the Bible are talking about not having sex with male temple prostitutes, or are not very clear in translation (like when Paul apparently makes up a new word)...But I do agree that some people are against homosexuality for religious reasons, but don't hate or fear homosexuals.4) Many strange things have happened to Ralph that seemed to confirm God really is in Heaven, and Jesus is Lord, and everything in the Holy Bible is true. For instance, every unselfish prayer Ralph has ever made, since childhood, has come true. So naturally Ralph condemns homosexuality because of scriptural law.
Not denied but that does not preclude the motivation of hate and or fear.Dogma is not always rooted in hate/fear. Many Dogmatists have experienced "Religious Awakenings," wherein they, because of some crisis or because of fasting for three weeks, finally accepted the "Truth" with their whole hearts. Many Dogmatists are sincere, passionate, loving optimists.
No dogma is a buffer. You talk about environmental influence, specific here to object to homosexuality yet the very cultural bias is based on said hate/fear.Dogma isn't the reason for the conditioning, it is merely an aspect of the conditioning. You ask if people are just things to be programmed? Well, your biology and your environment and possibly also your soul (merely another consciousness-containing thing, possibly separate from the physical body) interact with each other, and this interaction determines how you will behave.
I have never heard anyone say this and i have heard alot of people trying to defend personal prejudice.but if you absolutely need examples, try these:
1) i disapprove of a specific homosexual activity known as jailhouse rape.
2) hypothetical Guy Bob disapproves of homosexual activity on the grounds that procreation is the only logical usage for sex. Turns out Bob's an Evolutionist and believes in evolving beyond the lust response to experience a higher pleasure, and a higher love than human love.
She fears causing her puppy dog pain. Try again3) Suzie is a little crazy. She isn't scared or angry about it, but she thinks every time a homosexual couple makes love it causes her puppy dog piercing joint pain, and that makes Suzie cry sometimes.
Textbook fear and hate4) Many strange things have happened to Ralph that seemed to confirm God really is in Heaven, and Jesus is Lord, and everything in the Holy Bible is true. For instance, every unselfish prayer Ralph has ever made, since childhood, has come true. So naturally Ralph condemns homosexuality because of scriptural law.
Nice to see the propaganda working. It has you hood-winked.Homophobia differs from an ethical disapproval. It exists, and your denial of its existance doesn't make it go away.
Homophobia is the irrational fear and hatred of homosexuals and homosexual behavior. It may also indicate a fear of being gay.
Ronnie Antonio Paris, a three year old, was beat to death by his father because his father was afraid he would grow up to be gay. Does this sound rational to you?
Except for all of the Christians who do (obviously) have personal evidence that leads them to believe that the Christian God exists, but do not believe that He thinks homosexuality is a sin, or that the Bible means that it is a sin.For instance, if I'v spent my whole life having my unselfish prayers answered, I'd have a heap, I mean a HEAP, of evidence to confirm the God (gods, goddesses, spirits, ect) I believe in exist, especially if I prayed often for things difficult to obtain. Considering how many people there are on the planet, this sort of thing has probably happened to more than one person. It doesn't prove God is real (and I'm DEFINITELY not arguing for the existence of God) but it's strong evidence in that direction for that particular person ... and you know what? The right move for that person, according to an objective interpretation of the evidence, would be to listen to THAT GOD.
Well, I suppose many Muslim sects also believe that homosexuality is bad.i'm not even just talking about christians.
any deeply religious person who experiences personal awakenings while worshiping a God who seems to have communicated the sinful nature of homosexuality.
It is a word created to describe an attitude, just like 'racism' and 'sexism'.It is a word created to do something evil. It was created to smear right thinking people with a label so that they would feel like they are doing something wrong, or are thinking something wrong.
Yes, homophobia is sick and vile.It is sick and vile.
Certainly not. Nobody suggested they are.The entire heterosexual world is not "homophobic".
That would be a complaint about over-usage of the word, not about the word itself.Yet, if any one of us even looks the wrong way at a homosexual, BAM! SLAPPED WITH THE LABEL OF "HOMOPHOBE"
Nothing to weep about. You sound exactly like some guy in the 50's arguing that the blacks are doing fine, they have their own busses and their own schools, they're equal, and there's no such word as 'racism', it's just a propaganda tool.Read it and weep H. agenda.
What about any deeply religious person who experiences personal awakenings while worshiping a God who seems to have communicated the sinful nature of racial equality?i'm not even just talking about christians.
any deeply religious person who experiences personal awakenings while worshiping a God who seems to have communicated the sinful nature of homosexuality.
Yet the best example of non hate/fear based anti-homosexual reasoning you could come up with is psychosis and delusions about a dog being in pain.This is one of those rare moments when I actually half way agree with Shield of Faith. I don't believe homophobia doesn't exist, but do believe it is unscientific and misleading to label all forms of anti-homosexual thinking as homophobic.
Bigotry is wrong. No matter how one tries to defend it.Nice to see the propaganda working. It has you hood-winked.
It is a word created to do something evil. It was created to smear right thinking people with a label so that they would feel like they are doing something wrong, or are thinking something wrong.
Do you also believe in the black agenda and that they created the word racism as propoganda to “smear right thinking people with a label so that they would feel like they are doing something wrong”?It is ever so sublime, and tactical. I have to give it to the homosexual agenda here. Very very top notch job. Powerful and simple. You don't see propaganda any better.
Anti-gay bigotry certainly is sick and vileIt is sick and vile.
In the future you would do well to actually read what you are quoting.Look here:
Critics of the term
Some researchers within the field have preferred other terms to "homophobia." For example, Gregory M. Herek, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, compared several related terms: "homophobia," "heterosexism," and "sexual prejudice." In preferring the latter term, he noted that "homophobia" was "probably more widely used and more often criticized," and observed that. "Its critics note that homophobia implicitly suggests that antigay attitudes are best understood as an irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual psychopathology rather than a socially reinforced prejudice." He preferred "sexual prejudice" as being descriptive and free of presumptions about motivations, and lacking in value judgments as to the irrationality or immorality of those so labeled.
From your link:In 1980 Hudson and Ricketts proposed the term "homonegativity," arguing that "homophobia" was unscientific in its presumption of motivation.
Considering these two have to misrepresent the research findings of others to make their points using them here really doesn’t say much.In 1993, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles concluded that the usage of the term "as it is usually used, makes an illegitimately pejorative evaluation of certain open and debatable value positions, much like the former disease construct of homosexuality" itself, arguing that both homophobia and homosexuality are social constructions.
I think the name “Concerned Women of America” is deceptiveThe Concerned Women for America, a conservative lobby group, has called homophobia a "deceptive term"
I think the name Concerned Women of America is deceptive
Therein lies the key. there is noting irrational about hatred of a sinful behaviorIs it? I wouldn't know about that. Have you looked up the correct definition? I have. Let's see:
Originally Posted by Merriam-Webster online
irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
So, I was right, and you were wrong; homophobia does not relate merely to fear of homosexuals. Nice try, though.
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