[SuziQ]

His advice for straights uneasy about "Brokeback" is: "First understand you have this problem. At least by acknowledging it, that's a start. It's like saying, 'I have a fear of heights.' "

So this guy, who MADE UP THE TERM HOMOPHOBE wants hetero men to "acknowledge their problem"? I don't think hetero men have a problem. They just think the whole idea is ICK. They don't HATE, nor are they AFRAID of men who choose to have sex with other men, the whole idea is just repugnant to them, and that's natural.

[Just another Joe]

"This is a threat to most men because it opens up the possibility that two men who are friendly may become affectionate," Shary said. "That's something men just do not want to consider."

There is a difference between affection and wanting to bag your buddy.

I have affection for some men. My pastor, my brother, my father, some few good friends of long time aquintance.
I may give them a hug once in a while.
That DOESN'T mean I want to bag them.

[Havoc]

The answer is not complex, it is basic and simple. homosexuality is sick, immoral and just plain disgusting to a majority of people in general. What is being forced upon the population is a notion that one should view this as "ok". To most this is no different than asking us to believe that it's "ok" that Charlie Manson "chose" to be a murder conspirator. Hey, it's just another lifestyle decision - why should he be demeaned and discriminated against just because of your moral sense.

The issues here are not complex. They are simple. Complexity is heaped upon it purposedly to convolute the issue and confuse it. Homosexuals are people; but, they are people who have chosen a sickening lifestyle that no one is under any obligation to accept. It is a choice that they make and can unmake. It is not genetic. It is just perverse. And the war to change perversion to something acceptable is destined to be lost. Being a prostitute and a nice one doesn't make prostitution any less disgusting or any more wholesome. Nor does it make it any more legal. But, hey, it's a choice, right. Where are the marchers shouting for special rights for prostitutes. Right up the same alley, if you'll forgive the unintended pun. It's immoral sex and a health hazard just as is homosexuality.

Personally, I don't want to know what someone's sex life is like. I don't care and don't want to know about it. It is not proper to publicly discuss it. Standards have fallen to where liberals push this stuff in our faces knowing it incites moral people and flaunting it as though it were their right to do so. It needs to end.

[upcountryhorseman]

This is a good example of how Hollywood desensitizes
people with traditional value systems.

[Chewbacca]

My favorite romantic dramas are 'Where The Red Fern Grows', and 'Old Yeller'.