Homophobia is a rabid dog.

October 7, 2010 at 3:49 pm (Uncategorized)

Not many would dare use the word “nigger” in public, but daily people use words like “fag,” “dyke,” and phrases like “that’s so gay.” How did this happen? How is it there is no social accountability for those that deride the homosexual minority and those that make “gay” practically synonymous with “stupid?” A worse slap in the face is when other minority groups (who’ve faced and know the torment of oppression and degradation) discriminate against other minority groups – can I get a DUH?

Recently I wrote an article for my student newspaper about homophobia. Below are a list of my sources – the first is a study conducted in 1996 correlating homophobia with homosexual arousal in straight men, the second is an article sighting statistics from a recent (2009) survey of over 6,000 students.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CB0QFjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Ffiles%2Fu47%2FHenry_et_al.pdf&rct=j&q=is%20homophobia%20associated%20with%20homosexual%20arousal&ei=QOqtTN7-M8X_nAe1s_ygBg&usg=AFQjCNHmFLG8n9XqGXtSmXz9OS7MATLMug&cad=rja

http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/record/2462.html

actual survey:  http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CCQQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsd1.org%2Fgrantpark%2Fclubs%2Fgsa%2Fresources%2FSchool%2520Climate%2520Survey.pdf&rct=j&q=Joseph%20Kosciw%20GLESN%20findings%20pdf&ei=ruqtTK2fIsufnAflh-X8BQ&usg=AFQjCNFTPhsM62M8LpdeCCaCJFsMS-ra7w

 

Religion:

Question of logic, is God a bigot?

:: question of logic… Merriam-Webster defines a bigot as: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

and

Leviticus: 18:22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.

and

Leviticus: 18:29  For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

so taking that bible as the living word of God, therefore God is a bigot?

but then does that make God imperfect, being a bigot a good thing, or the bible not the word of God?