Homophobia...?

I think you're applying a definition to "homophobia" that is too narrow. That word doesn't just imply fear.

Per Merriam Webster:

When you include "aversion to" and "discrimination against", that word is applicable to quite a larger population.

 

words meanings change a lot, it isnt the fear of homos it is used as people who are just against it or unsupportive for what ever reason. i dont know what the term for someone that is legitimately phobic of homos would be, most people dont wear the full name of their traumatic phobias on their sleeves though and find other ways to reference it when needed.

 

if someone told me they rationally hated jews and blacks i wouldnt really care to find out why. call it preservation of sanity

 

I smell a troll.

 

arguable on the physical unchangeable aspect. i personally cant choose that i like women even if im not with one and their own lack of self-reflection, awareness, and common decency as a grown adult does not award them status as a protected class allowing them a free pass to degrade, protest, and vote against the way i am just because they again do not self-reflect and question their moralities or lack the awareness to do so. it allows them i suppose but it also allows me to call them out on it.

im not touching the "gay gene" aspect of this but more and more facilities are putting lgbt status as a protected class because it is being found that people often can not help being lgbt so while conparing it to race and ethnicity is in questionable taste itnis not unfair or impossible. but regardless it is not my job to make them comfortable because of the way i feel when it does not harm them. hope this makes sense feel free to ask questions

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basically if they have an ounce of awareness and are willing to work with it, the dislike does not stay rational.

 

I think I asked this along time ago as well. I asked why do we call homophobia it's name. Isn't a phobia an irrational fear. If I could kiss my boyfriend and make people cringe in free and run... I'd have so much fun. I think another term would be nice for it.
It's just like that phrase coming out of the closet. It no idea why some lgbtqa use it.. I should probably Google this XD. I'm just like.. what closet?. I think we should use the phrase not ready yet. Although I never had to come out of the closet, I just told peeps I like men.

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I also find it funny that when some lgbtqa call people homophobic they also throw in the word racist too... I think you can't equate the struggles of lgbtqa to that of my people's (African American )struggles. Ijs

 

I didn't choose to be gay either. Am I just supposed to lie and pretend I like women? Wouldn't that be a sin too?

 

many times in life, people that thought they were doing a good thing grow older and depending on their empathy and open-mindedness realize it may not have been good or is at least far more complicated. im sure nazi eugenics had good intentions, pro-lifers have good intentions, racial separatists/purists have good intentions, crusaders had good intentions, etc etc bad people arent just born, they make bad decisions rooted in what they believe is right. but that doesnt make it right. i use extreme example to help demonstrate the point that good intentions are not always so and every person has the ability to realize that if they are open to it and the perspectives of others. good intentions does not excuse a person from choices that harm others.

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if a few sentences from the book of my religion dictate my decision to harm other people, that is on me and i do not get a free pass to not face any consequence or penalty for that decision. i have the ability to change and reflect on it. entire denominations have been carved out of christianity based on how they interpret, believe, and choose to follow the different words of the bible. you can be christian without being harmful to others, you have to be willing to recognize your influence and other perspectives instead of just doubling down and crying "war on christianity"

 

Oh, forgive me, usually when someone says something so patently ridiculous such as to refer to homosexuality as a "lifestyle" they are generally a troll. I forgot that there are occasionally simply ignorant people out there.

Please, they amount to the same thing. That's not but a cop out.

 

Well, some opinions deserve neither respect nor acknowledgement. Homophobia is inherently evil and should never be accepted as a valid opinion.

 

You already have your answer to your misinterpretation of the word "homophobia" here. When people are accused of being "homophobes" they are (usually, in the common use of the word) not being accused of having an "irrational fear" of homosexuality, they are being accused of discriminating against homosexual individuals.


There are then several ways you can go from there as to your claim that we shouldn't shun homophobic behavior:

1. Homosexuality is essentially innate, and in no way did people "choose" to be gay. Therefore, discriminating against someone for being gay is absurd and ought to be viewed as abhorrent.

or,

2. Regardless of the innateness of homosexuality, such acts do absolutely nothing to harm others. Therefore, discriminating against someone for engaging in those behaviors is absurd and ought to be viewed as abhorrent.




I myself prefer the second one. In either case your support for them is at best misplaced and at worst disturbing.