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(July 5, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Yes. I have enjoyed putting my hand on a couple of homophobic friends' upper arm or shoulder, and smile at them, to make them squirm. I am a straight male, and I really am not happy with homophobes. They should get their heads straightened out (no pun intended).
Gay people are not a danger to society. It is not a problem if your neighbor is gay. Nor is it a problem if your neighbor is straight. Or bisexual. Or whatever, as long as he or she is only doing things with consenting adults (or inanimate objects that he or she owns).
It is amazing how fascist so many people are when it comes to this sort of thing. What does your neighbors' sexuality have to do with you? Unless you are having sex with your neighbor, what business or concern is it for you? People need to mind their own business, and let other people live their lives in peace.
To get a little closer to the topic of this thread, the priesthood seems to have attracted quite a few homosexual men. A guy I knew in high school wanted to become a priest. I later learned that he was gay. Really, it seems like a good cover for someone who is gay in a society in which homosexuality is not accepted, as it gives him a good reason or excuse for never marrying a woman. People are more likely to get suspicious about a man who isn't a priest who never marries. Which brings up the issue of beards, where a man uses a woman in order to hide his homosexuality. If she is not aware of her function, that can be pretty bad for her, particularly if he goes so far as to marry her in order to hide his sexuality.
It really would better for everyone if society were more accepting of gays.
They fear that a gay neighbor might influence their children. son comes home one day, "Mom, Dad, guess who's coming to dinner?"
For his 40th birthday my cousin's mother gave him a birthday cake with purple icing to protest the fact that he hadn't given her any grandchildren.
That seems to be a pretty irrational fear. Do they seriously believe that sexual preference is changed by someone talking to them? Do they imagine it is a choice the way one might choose a blue tie or a red tie? (If they think that, they must be bisexual. Otherwise, it is more like a choice between some delicious food and some revolting, rotten food.)
The neighbor being gay might get one to come out of the closet, but it is not going to cause straight people to be gay. Do they imagine that gayness is catching, like a cold?
Studies indicate that having gay parents is not a problem for children, so why would having gay neighbors be a problem? See:
Basically, the idea that the neighbor being gay is a problem is ridiculous. Of course, people believe many ridiculous things, and this is only one example. But believing that something is a problem is not the same as it being a problem. It is not a problem if one's neighbor is gay. People need to relax and stop believing nonsense.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
