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Homophobia

The Hammer

The Hammer

Skald
Premium Member
Stevicus said:
I recall a common theme when I was growing up (although it seems to have subsided in more recent times) of people (mainly boys) accusing other boys/men of being gay - even if they weren't. All they had to do was look different or come across as slightly weaker, and that would trigger some visceral reaction in some people.
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I was savagely a target of this. Mainly because I was a quite introverted kid, who focused in school. Nothing to do with sexuality. But then when I did realize I was bi everything they said became more than just personal.....

"What did they see and know, that I did not know of myself?"
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
rocala said:
His problem was that he had never been able to handle his father rejecting him. His father hated gays
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My parents are (mature) hippies, as a child we had such a mix of people visiting you just couldn't help but accept anyone as a human being.

So the morning i was walking along the driveway to school and i noticed an oddity about the tree by the gate. As i got closer i realised it was somebody hanging. I ran back to the house, told my parents.

Long story involving ambulance, police and fire brigade to take the body away.

It later came to light that this poor guy had the same problem, his father had rejected him when he came out as gay.
 
Pawpatrol

Pawpatrol

Active Member
Betho_br said:
I am amazed! Religious sexual laws, if I am not mistaken, have always focused on men. They have only regulated the conduct of men, as they interpreted that an effeminate man was harmful in the event of war.
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Islam is not strictly focused on men. I doubt that others are either.
 
Quagmire

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
rocala said:
Oh yes, that sort of thing was very common in my youth. Other, probably wiser people, used to say, "look at who is pointing the finger and that is where you will find the real gay guy."
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Where Homophobia Comes From; a poem in memory of the great Oscar Wilde

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Argentbear

Argentbear

Well-Known Member
Pawpatrol said:
If they strive to end it by defending a homosexual lifestyle then that is shameful, but if they strive to end it by offering therapy, for example, then it might be ok.
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Gay people have lives, they don't have a lifestyle.

As for "reparative therapy" that is one of the most evil things ever conceived of by humans. It requires the ":therapist" to lie and engage in abuse, mental, emotional, spiritual and even physical abuse. It's goal is to foster hatred from your family, and worse self hatred and loathing and get the person themselves to engage in self abuse. No one changes and the "therapists" know this, they know that it you abuse and torture someone long enough and hard enough they will start to lie just to get the abuse to stop.
 
Pawpatrol

Pawpatrol

Active Member
Argentbear said:
Gay people have lives, they don't have a lifestyle.

As for "reparative therapy" that is one of the most evil things ever conceived of by humans. It requires the ":therapist" to lie and engage in abuse, mental, emotional, spiritual and even physical abuse. It's goal is to foster hatred from your family, and worse self hatred and loathing and get the person themselves to engage in self abuse. No one changes and the "therapists" know this, they know that it you abuse and torture someone long enough and hard enough they will start to lie just to get the abuse to stop.
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Everyone has a lifestyle. I'm not talking about that kind of therapy. I mean therapy to avoid addictions etc
 
Q

QuestioningMind

Well-Known Member
Pawpatrol said:
If they strive to end it by defending a homosexual lifestyle then that is shameful, but if they strive to end it by offering therapy, for example, then it might be ok.
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How is a homosexual lifestyle any more or less shameful than a heterosexual lifestyle? Do you consider anyone who's lifestyle is in the minority to be shameful? Do you consider the 'left handed lifestyle' to be shameful as well?
 
Pawpatrol

Pawpatrol

Active Member
QuestioningMind said:
How is a homosexual lifestyle any more or less shameful than a heterosexual lifestyle? Do you consider anyone who's lifestyle is in the minority to be shameful? Do you consider the 'left handed lifestyle' to be shameful as well?
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  • it's forbidden by God
  • It's unnatural
  • Sodomy is unhealthy
  • It doesn't produce children
  • It doesn't give children their rights
  • Open homosexuals are oc not following the religion and are therefore not morally upright
  • It leads into the degradation of morals in society in general
 
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