You may not agree with that reasoning, and you are entitled, but pretending that all opposition/discrimination against homosexuals is experientially based it a little like pretend your opponent isn't there in the hopes that he'll go away.

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This is the philosophy of my life.

I am not afraid of homoesexuals, nor do I seek them out and beat on them with glass bottles or blow up gay bars, but I do think active homosexuality is wrong.

That does not make me a homophobe.

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Actually...dictionary.com and meriamwebster.com both disagree with you citing aversion to or antipathy toward homosexuals in the definition of homophobia.

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"It is the wrong question to ask, and therefore, as one  might expect, has
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This is the philosophy of my life.

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Quote: from barnabas at 12:17 pm on Aug. 7, 2008

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There is a difference between homophobia and an aversion to homosexuality.

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Actually...dictionary.com and meriamwebster.com both disagree with you citing aversion to or antipathy toward homosexuals in the definition of homophobia.

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well that is because the dictionary and the rest of the world is controlled by a liberal tolerance promoting culture.

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

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Sometimes it's insecurity. Sometimes it's how a person was raised. It's the classic "Nature vs. Nurture" argument. Why do some people turn out gay and some people turn out straight? No one knows.  

However, if gayness is something that can be genetic, why not homophobia?

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I disagree. I think it's always about insecurity, whether it's because you've been raised in a world where everyone's always been straight and are suddenly exposed to it, or if you've been taught in church that it's wrong and totally sinful and see that some of the nicest and most caring people you meet are anything other than straight. The homophobes are uncomfortable with the idea of something being other than they think it should be, and react extremely to it, mentally or physically (or sometimes emotionally; I've seen it, and it's downright weird). And I am talking about the real homophobia, not the moderate stance of disagreement with it. These people are just disturbed that someone can be different from them in unexpected, peaceful ways, and that's cracked thinking, and that's why it's just stupid.

That doesn't really fit into you're catagories..

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Quote: from barnabas at 12:17 pm on Aug. 7, 2008

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There is a difference between homophobia and an aversion to homosexuality.

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Actually...dictionary.com and meriamwebster.com both disagree with you citing aversion to or antipathy toward homosexuals in the definition of homophobia.

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Umm...

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unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality.

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You say homophobia can be reached through reason right?

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