Homophobia

Dare I even speak about this topic...LOL. I try to remain open-minded even though I have my own personal views and opinions regarding homosexuality and the origin of it. However, I am not homophobic. I have many friends who are homosexual, some of which are pretty close. Just because we may have differences of opinions regarding homosexuality, the way each of us live our individual lives does not affect the other person and does not affect our friendship.
 
Just read this on Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/man-says-rejected-blood-bank-seeming-gay-151627659.html

Man says he was rejected by blood bank for seeming gay

An Indiana man says a blood donation center rejected him as a donor because he appears to be gay--even though he isn't.
Aaron Pace, 22, recently visited Bio-Blood Components Inc., in Gary, which pays up to $40 for blood and plasma donations. But during the interview process, he said, he was told he couldn't give blood because he seems gay.
Though Pace is "admittedly and noticeably effeminate," according to the Chicago Sun-Times, he says he's straight.
"It's not right that homeless people can give blood but homosexuals can't," Pace told the paper. "And I'm not even a homosexual."
Even though the blood bank sounds like it is engaging in a discriminatory practice, it would only be following the law by rejecting Pace were he gay. In 1983, amid the early panic over AIDS, the Food and Drug Administration banned all men who had had sex with other men since 1977 from giving blood. At that time, there were no effective screening tests to identify HIV-positive blood.
Nowadays, all donated blood is tested for HIV and other infectious diseases before being given to hospitals. And a recent study found that the gay ban costs hospitals 219,000 pints of blood each year.
And yet, last year, the Department of Health and Human Services decided to maintain the policy--though an FDA committee called it "sub-optimal," and suggested that it would be better to develop a screening system based on individual behavior, not broad characteristics like sexuality.
Curt Ellis, the former director of The Aliveness Project of Northwest Indiana, an HIV education group, called the ban "unfair, outrageous and just plain stupid."
As for Pace, he's still mad about being rejected. "I was humiliated and embarrassed," he said. And just to be clear: He's not gay--not that there's anything wrong with it.
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Aries said:
I think it also has to do with that most men think it's hot for two women to be together (well, as long as the women are hot) but two good looking men together is disgusting for them.
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Then again, there was that research that stated that homophobic men get more aroused than "ordinary" non-homophobic men when watching homosexual male pornography. But that might be just 'cause it's porn. :P
 
This is one of my biggest contentions with Christianity. On one hand you're supposed to love your neighbor but homosexuality is an abomination and anyone who is homosexual deserves to be obliterated. Complete and utter rubbish.

Like Tim said... homosexuality isn't a choice... simply a sexual preference just like being straight. Why people seem to take issue with it is beyond me.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

I have yet to see one person on this forum use the word " Homophobia " correctly. This thread has demonstrated it once again.
 
Guyzerr said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

I have yet to see one person on this forum use the word " Homophobia " correctly. This thread has demonstrated it once again.
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Homophobia doesn't refer to a true phobia... merely negative attitudes or prejudices against homosexuals. Some people that would fall under that classification are probably actually afraid of homosexuals, while others simply don't agree with, hate, or otherwise have an issue with homosexuality and homosexuals.
 
Panacea said:
:rolleyes:
It's just as pathetic to "disagree" with homosexuality as it is to be homophobic, clinically. Those people deserve mention in this thread.
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I don't think it's pathetic to be honest... people are certainly entitled to their opinions, so long as they don't let their disagreements prevent them from interacting from someone whose lifestyle they don't agree with.
 
Darrell said:
Please elaborate. I don't follow.
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It's quite elementary actually. Your OP listed the definition and almost everyone... and I mean almost everyone on this board takes that to mean that anyone that is against that lifestyle for whatever reason is a homophobe when that isn't the case at all.
 
retro said:
Homophobia doesn't refer to a true phobia... merely negative attitudes or prejudices against homosexuals. Some people that would fall under that classification are probably actually afraid of homosexuals, while others simply don't agree with, hate, or otherwise have an issue with homosexuality and homosexuals.
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I would suggest you read the definition again then. What you and the others are doing is twisting it to mean what you want it to mean. If it isn't a true phobia as you say it isn't then leave the phobia part out of the word.
 
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