Why does homophobia exist?
I think homophobia exists because people have always grown up with man and women relationships and that is what is normal for them…..they are scared of that which is different mayb……I am not sure…I am straight and am only attracted to men….but I have many gay friends and to me they are just the same as me…they are an equal to me…just because they have a different sexual preference doesn’t mean I am going to hate them as a person…I don’t know if any of this helped but it is my opinion…and I have a lot of admiration for those who can openly admit they are gay….even though they do cop a lot of **** from others….
homophobic people exist cuz of religion i still dont see why we cant all get along normally christian ppl dont go around trying to convert every non christian so why do the bug us in my country its illegal to be gay and u can get up to 10 years in jail and its not fail at all we’re not asking for special treatment we’re only asking to be accepted
From a straight’s perspective: I’m personally disgusted at homophobia. It may be contradictive, but I hate people who hate gay people. I do. Though I think my hate is justified, whereas theirs is not, so it really isn’t contradictive. If I may stereotype the LGBT community, I have found them to be the most fun, honest, loving, caring people I have ever met in my life! And the thought of someone hating them and that they have fewer rights, it just kills me inside! I really have considered lately of moving to Canada, or another place that allows equal marriage. As you know, there is no answer. The religious people are too brainwashed by some psycho freak who wrote that book how many years ago. They don’t think for themselves. And although they consider themselves “good” people for being christian, they are the worst people in the world. They are violent and hateful and contradictive and rude. It’s disgusting, really, religion. I have first hand witnessed a church group say, in the same s
I wasn’t going to answer, but in response to Dan in Miami I think I will. What you just talked about, not accepting, but being okay with having coffee with a gay person, I do not see as homophobia. Having an opinion about whether someones choices are right or wrong is not the same as homophobia. Many people that I know do not respect LGBT people as people. They spit upon their lifestyles, say disrespectful, and uneeded comments, and overall, care way too much about the LGBT person’s lifestyle. What I think Dan in Miami is saying, (and if you read this Dan, please email me if I am not correctly interpreting your response), is that he disagrees with homosexuality, and is not afraid to stand for what he believes. I have no issue with anyone who disagrees with my lifestyle. If you think that it is wrong for me to be transsexual, and that it is wrong for me to be gay, believe what you will. But when you start degrading me, and tearing apart me as a person, I think that you’ve gone too far.
To paraphrase Professor Xavier in X-Men: “Tolerance isn’t exactly one of humanity’s strongest traits.” Couple that with the facts that humans are a notoriously static lot (not wanting change, just wanting to preserve the status quo) as well as having religious “backbone” to justify this hatred of homosexuality, and I’m actually quite surprised that gay people are allowed to even walk on the planet Earth! The fact that we live in a wrold that has (in some parts) actually legalized gay marriage means that we are, slowly, eroding those unfounded prejudices and biases against us. We need to remember that these “beliefs” about gay people have been reinforced over centuries – it will take much more time to undo the harmful effects of this form of hatred (and I doubt it will ever be completely stamped out). As a gay man, I feel your pain, as I too have had to face my share of idiotic homophobes flaunting their “moral superiority”. We are getting there, my friend, that day when who we are attr
