[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.

[45Auto]

The Wonderful New Mental Illness: Homophobia

Some gays thought the new line of demarcation and the disease it created — homophobia — was wonderful. It was touted by some as a major victory for gay liberation. The National Gay Rights Task Force, in the US, called homophobia “a flawed personality trait” which “mental health professionals have identified.” At a conference sponsored by gay groups, one speaker announced: “Homophobia is the problem, not homosexuality. Homophobia is the pathology, not homosexuality.”

Now, by making bigotry a "mental illness," one thereby removes the bigot from the realm of morality and places him in the medical realm instead. This reclassification of bigotry establishes a foundation for the exoneration of the bigot. Such a theory of bigotry would, for example, serve well the interests of past perpetrators of apartheid. They could defend their crimes by claiming “diminished mental capacity” due to “the disease of negrophobia.” Instead of a Truth Commission we could create a commission of psychiatrists to treat the poor victims of this new disease.

This is virtually what happened in the case of Dan White, the assassin of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and gay city Supervisor Harvey Milk. White couldn’t be inflicted with the disease of homophobia and be responsible for his crime at the same time. By medicalizing White’s actions the court was saying that the assassinations were actually a symptom of his disease. The trial of White ended with him being found to suffer from “diminished capacity” and he received a slap-on-the-wrist sentence. The city’s gay population was shocked; but large segments of their own leadership had established the foundation on which this exoneration was based by accepting the existence of a phony disease called “homophobia”.

[ladylib]

His religion has sanctions against homosexuality. What right does anyone have to call him a bigot?

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I do not particularily like seafood....does that make me a "seafoodphobe"?

I do not like gin....does that make me a "ginophobe"?

I do not terrorism....does that make me a "terrorphobe"?

I do not like hip-hop music...does that make me a "hiphopophobe"?

I am tired of the term "homophobe". It is dishonest and inaccurate.

As someone once told me: "I am not homphobic...I can kick any homo's a**"

[Treebeard]

Pimentel's arguments leave one cold, like a refrigerator. The similarity of Pimentel to a refrigerator ends there, because a fridge doesn't fart when you take meat out of it...

[SquirrelKing]

"Rule number one: NO POOFDAS!"

[sit-rep]

Still knee-deep in Homophobia

Forever totally submerged in Homophobia...

[caisson71]

Homosexuality is solely defined by a sex act. I find that sex act unnatural and despicable. If I must have a label, call me discerning.

[tuckrdout]

This person does not like being labeled, or their sexual practices disparaged. Hmmmmm. Seems to me they just called Traditional Islamics, people of Tibet and Nepal and Historic Mormons (bigamists and polygamists) and Indians in Brazil, Venezuela, The Bedouins, and some Chinese provinces, where they marry incestuously ....."SCUMMY"!

So, he has lost all right to critisize the speech of anyone else.

[B Knotts]

It would be very interesting to see what percentage of newspaper employees are homosexual. I suspect it is much higher than among the general population, and I note a recent, marked increase in the tendency for some to abuse their positions for the hyper-promotion of personal issues.

[ctlpdad]

I think the word homophobe implies fear of fags. I am not afraid if fags, they just make me sick!

Proud member of the Fag-Disliker Society Of America!
(By the way, I hate teachers unions even more!)

[LibWhacker]

Hey, I place you in the same category as all those scummy people I just mentioned.

Guess what, pervert . . . YOU'RE EVEN WORSE!!!

[monday]

"If being homophobic means finding the homosexual sex act nasty and repulsive, call me a proud homophobe. "

Actually it means being frightened of homosexuals. It is quite possible to find homosexual acts nasty and repulsive and not be homophobic. I do. Usually homophobic is used to describe people who attack homosexuals either physically or verbably.

The logic being that if they were not afraid of them they would not feel the need to attack them.

"How dare the gays try to make this word diparaging. "

It's not really disparaging so much as embarrassing. Who would want to admit to being afraid of a bunch of limp wristed faggots?

[churchillbuff]

Isn't the Arizona Republic a conservative newspaper? How did they hire this guy?

[sharktrager]

I'm amazed that the author, early in the piece, says that Santorum is calling them "sinners" just for being. That is not what he, or the sodomy laws, say. They do not address being gay, they address acting on it.

That said, I like keeping marriage the way it's defined, but don't agree with sodomy laws. Frankly, I don't care what someone else does in the privacy of their own home if it's between consenting adults. Just keep it out of public restrooms, parks and the Boy Scouts.

[Egregious Philbin]

Let's face facts. The siren song of homosexuality is not causing heterosexuals to avoid marriage, bail out of it or be unfaithful to their spouses. And legalizing gay unions will not cause heterosexuals to be any more or less committed to marriage.

Yeah, Rick, where's the connection?

[The Grammarian]

Where's the Barf Alert?

[ampat]

The author doesn't get it. If one item of his agenda is poo-poo'd by a republican, then according to him, the entire race of republicans should go to hell. This guy doesn't warrant any more of my time.

[tuckrdout]

Spitting in public is a symbolic law. Same thing. Put on the books for public health. Almost never enforced.

Same with sodomy laws. For public health. Almost never enforced.

[ArGee]

I keep asking, but nobody is answering.

Santorum said that if consensual sex is acceptable because it is a privacy issue, then bigamy, polygamy, adultery, and incest are also acceptable when consensual and performed in private. The implication was that this was a reason to keep hay sex illegal because all 5 sex acts are immoral.

Why does this statement bother the gays? Is it because the other 4 are immoral but gay sex is moral?

Somebody name one world religion in which this is considered true.

If you aren't religious then Santorum's statement was empty.

If you are religious then you must believe homosexuality is immoral.

In either case, Santorum's statement was no more than the truth and nothing to be upset about.

So why are the gays so upset?

Can anyone answer this question?

Shalom.

[RAT Patrol]

"Homophobe" is just a slur used by the left to condemn and intimdate rather than discuss and debate. The fact that gayness is unnatural is just science, so they must reduce themselves to meaness if they are going ot have a chance at winning the debate.

What they are finding out is just what Saddam recently learned. Forced allegiance is flimsy allegiance. They might shut down conversation for a time, but they are not restructuring human conscience and the ideals of right and wrong. We all know the truth.