Still knee-deep in homophobia

The Arizona Republic ^ | Apr. 29, 2003 | O. Ricardo Pimentel

[presidio9]

Let me translate into "bigotspeak" what Sen. Rick Santorum meant when he compared gays to bigamists, polygamists and practitioners of incest and adultery.

Translated: Hey, I place you in the same category as all those scummy people I just mentioned. Oh, and if you act on who you are, you're also a criminal.

[presidio9]

If being homophobic means finding the homosexual sex act nasty and repulsive, call me a proud homophobe. How dare the gays try to make this word diparaging.

[bgierhart]

I am A Proud HOMOPHOB

[ArGee]

I skipped most of this as drivel, but here is an important line.

Translated: Hey, I place you in the same category as all those scummy people I just mentioned. Oh, and if you act on who you are, you're also a criminal.

Can anyone here on FR point to a moral code of any religion that accepts homosexual behavior as moral but polygamy, bigamy, adultery, and incest as immoral? In other words, if I lump those 5 together and none of them are immoral then it doesn't matter that I've lumped them together. It would be like lumping together homosexual sex and eating or bigamy and swimming. If they are all immoral then it doesn't matter that I've lumped them together. It's just like lumping bigamy with murder or incest with rape.

The fact that the homosexual community identified all those other sexual behaviors as immoral (not part of Santorum's statement) shows that they know there are valid and invalid sexual relations. Why, then, are they so upset when someone suggests that homosex would be one of the invalid ones?

Is this a case of the truth hurting?

Shalom.

[canuck_conservative]

Don't be defensive on this subject, be aggressive! Like:

"Homophobia is good for society."

[journey7873]

If being homophobic means finding the homosexual sex act nasty and repulsive, call me a proud homophobe. How dare the gays try to make this word diparaging.

Well, if that's the case...sign me up as being a proud homophobe as well.

[maeng]

"DARE TO BE A HOMOPHOB" We need buttons to wear!!!!!

[steplock]

I was in the middle of sending the author of that article a letter when I realized....

It would not matter to him in the least because people like him would NEVER know what right or wrong is.

I threw the email into the oblivion of the delete key.

[Texas Eagle]

Oh, and if you act on who you are,.....

And therein lies the lie. Homosexuality is not a "condition" or a state of being. It is an act. A decision. A behavior.
And that is why any time a person who engages in homosexual acts tries to compare himself to a protected minority community, the leaders of that minority group should be outraged at the attempted link-up.

But then, there are no such things as minority "groups". But I'll save that for the appropriate thread.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Still knee-deep in homophobia

US Forces Pull Out of Saudi Arabia

Two juxtaposed headlines on FR. Concidence?

[Billy_bob_bob]

If I'm an employer, I have to hire homosexuals whether I want to or not. If I'm a landlord, I have to rent to homsexuals whether I want to or not.

As a result, although I could start a business that hires people, or purchase an apartment building to make money off rents, I choose not to. Why? Because the government is going to tell me who I can hire, or who I can rent to, whether I want to or not.

Fine. Let the government provide all the jobs and all the housing. I refuse to "own" something that the government is going to control for me. At that point there is no such thing as private ownership, it's Fascism is what it is.

[skeeter]

Tell us, whats "scummy" about beastiality, O. Ricardo??

[VaBthang4]

I think the writer is hetrophobic.

[AndyTheBear]

" . . . If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery," he told the Associated Press. "You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but unlike the original misquote that set off this whole thing, this quote has him comparing consensual sex (not neccesarily gay) with bigomy ect. So if we are to extrapolate that this constitutes a display of bigotry against gays in paticular, then how is it that it is not just as much a display of bigotry against anyone else who engages in consenual sex?

Perhaps the display of bigotry is by the author.

[Texas Eagle]

Let me translate into "bigotspeak" what Sen. Rick Santorum meant

Why don't you translate it into Ebonics. That would be funnier.

[presidio9]

That might go over in Canada, but in Arizona it would probably get me beat up.

[bmwcyle]

It is not fear of homosexuals. It is fear of the Lord our God and his word on sin. It is Godaphobia and he is someone to respect and fear.

[goldstategop]

He's a heterophobe who engages in name-calling. Several adjectives spring to mind but I won't stoop down to the gutter level to which he reduces Rick Santorum and the rest of us who disapprove of what gays do in bed behind closed doors.

[joesnuffy]

I think the Govt. is too involved in any kind of "pork" in the first place...
Sodomy is evil...the bible tells me so....
so why are homos so inclined to legitimize it and force the rest of us to "approve" of their proclivity..
why do they want society to put its stamp of approval on a thing God Himself has declared as unsuitable human activity?

[Grampa Dave]

It is far better to be a Proud Homophobe versus a diseased/dying Heterophobe Maggot!