In a world of such intelligence and new ideas why cant we except gay people for who they are?

Question

In a world of such intelligence why cant we just except gay people for who they are. It seems that world just continues to pick and eat at the little things that really dont even matter instead of focus on what really matters such as poverty and diseases. I ask everyone to please answer this question with your opinions and you views on this question. Because it seems that there is no reason to have hatred for someone that is just being themselves.

Answer 1

People learn from their parents.
The current feelings against Gay people are based on ignorance, fear and old ideas.

Gay people now, are like the blacks in the 60s.
It will take a while, but we will have equal legal rights soon...
The attitudes of individuals is a different matter. That takes a long time, if ever, for people to accept what they refuse to understand or is different from themselves.

Answer 2

Because in America where the majority of people are Christians, there is a stigma against homosexuality and the consequences of partaking in homo-sexual acts. Although one may be born gay or not doesn't matter - what matters is that homosexuality is not seen as a natural state and therefore, it is deemed as detrimental to society. What you don't understand, you don't like. Same can be said about racism.

Answer 3

Because the same people who say being gay is morally wrong are the same ones that ignore the other parts of the bible that say it is evil to cut your hair, or eat shellfish. It just so happens that the same book that says being gay is wrong is the same book that says it is okay to sell your daughters into slavery. But they ignore that part.

The bible also says that it is a sin to take the lord's name in vain. That includes making money off of him, so that means every TV evangelist is sinning. It also means saying something that God didn't say to further your own agenda, so that means everyone who is against gays is against God. Because God never wrote the bible, the bible was written by men. So it is a catch 22. If you believe in the bible, you are committing a sin because the Bible says not to take gods name in vain and the bible does that.

So what are you going to do?

Answer 4

The intelegence of the world is higher than it has ever been before. That doesn't mean that we have advanced in the common sense area.
I have met many people in my life that had high positions in business, graduated from many years of college, and yet they can say and do some of the dumbest things. No one teaches common sense.
We are arrogant too, and self centered, and self rightous. Until we can make ourselves see past our own big noses, nothing will change.

Answer 5

There are two,no three things,if the two know each others preferences,and one hangs out with insecure people the other may become traumatized or vindictive,if expressed accurately the offender would effectively,diminish his behaviorial inadequacy,gradually have support from his peers,and then,problems cease.The gay men that cannot be themselves usually revert to antagonism,to deflect animosity from the ones they find emotionally available,then to apparrel theatrics.

Answer 6

Because society always has to have a common enemy. In the medevil days it was the leppers, later on the white man hated the people of colour and jews. Now that the moral says its not o k to hate against the diseased, religous, or race, they hate homosexuals, just because they need someone "different" to hate.

Answer 7

Accepting Gays is different than liking the idea, and not liking the idea does not involve hating anyone. I don't like people who talk on their cellphones while they drive, I accept it because I can not do nothing about it and I do not hate anyone over it even though talking on a cell phone while driving causes accidents. Gays don't cause accidents.

So if some gay or straight person run over my dog I should not hate him because his talking on the cell phone he was just being himself?

SEE SEE I can talk bull just like this questioner

Answer 8

People don't want to deal with the stuff that really matters, so they busy themselves with the tiny details. Homo-, bi-, and trans-phobia are a sort of procrastination that protects people from accepting people as people and lets them hide in their ignorance. If people accepted all people as people, then they would have to allow them their basic rights and dignity, which would mean that the haves would have to work so they could give to the have-nots.

Answer 9

Because alot of people get their beliefs from a book (The Bible) that has been tampered with by 100's of people who copied the book by hand,thus changing the meaning. Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting the bible down , I just think it's wrong to believe it as the truth. If you are spiritual you would know that people should be judged on thier actions. Not who they have sex with.

Answer 10

it's because society keeps teaching it's young to fear what is different. society as a whole uses religion, economical, genetic, even geographic factors as a reason to dislike what is different about others.
i think that as young people grow and start to question what their parents taught them, and they start to make up their minds for themselves, change will come. of course there will always be people who are so brain washed into their ideaology that they won't be willing to accept change, but then again, they have every right to exist in this world as anyone else does.
sometimes you just got to smile, and shine them on and let them know that irregardless of their opinions, you're gonna live your life as you always have.