How do you feel about...?

Question

I want to know how people honestly feel about homosexuality. In yahoo news they just posted a story about p-town and on the discussion a lot of really hateful and angry things were said about gay people. It seemed like everyone that was talking was homophobic. I just want peoples honest, adult opinions on the matter with your reasoning behind how you feel. (I.E. religion, parents taught you, etc). I personally am straight though I was taught to be tolerant of people who are different from myself. I don't support nor condone homosexuality. I feel that what you choose to do with your own life is up to you as long as you aren't harming anyone else and homosexuality falls under that. How do others feel on the matter?
Please I want rationalized opinions.

Wow I really like all of your answers. No one is saying anything hateful or mean which is refreshing. I agree with the whole idea of love. Love is love no matter what way you look at it.

Answer 1

I could care less whom other people choose to love. I think love is a wonderful thing no matter whom it is directed at, and those who oppose gay people are opposing love - how can they do that? I am a straight person, and I really don't see how it hurts me to let gay people get married. What's the big deal? It doesn't change my relationship with my fiance if there's a gay couple living next door or not, so why must everyone shoot them down? I just really don't understand all the hatred against something that has nothing to do with anyone but the two people who are in love. They are no more hurting others than two people engaged in a heterosexual relationship.

Answer 2

I really do not care. Really, I don't. Why can't they fall in love like evryone else? Why can't they get married like everyone else? This country is soo f@cked up!
I am a heterosexual. I love men. I am not interested in a woman. But, does that make me tell every gayperso out there that they should be in love with the opposite sex because it is "normal"?
Being in love is normal. Wanting to share your life with the person you love is normal.
I mean, I am from Jersey. We have towns that have gay communities (I work for a school district with two towns that have a lot of gay families) and, still, you do not see any of the families out together. You know that they are because they proudly display the rainbow flag, but still, it is a lot of hostility.
In New York, you see them everywhere. And, I like that. Why? Because we are all human. With so many problems in the world, people are going to worry about two men or two women being in love with each other? What? We are at war, children are dying, the ozone layer is terrible, gangs are threatening people everyday, priests are molesting children (and, if they are with an adult, they still get prosecuted because they did not do a child) I mean, my God. With so many worries and death amongst us, to really worry about the union of anyone who has ever been in love, no matter of race, creed, religion, social status, whatever, it is really sad. That is why we are the laughing stock of other countries.

Answer 3

How can so many people be so wrong about people who don't like homosexuals? Just because we don't like homosexuality doesn't mean that we have a problem with our own sexuality. In fact I am extremely comfortable with my hetero-
sexuality.
I don't like homosexuals because I think they are fake and unnatural. I don't understand why being homosexual somehow makes a man's voice become high pitched like a woman's..why does it make a woman dress like a man. They are fake, they are phony. Why do gay guys act like women? Why do lesbians act like men?
Why are homosexual men and women always sexually promiscuous? Sexually transmitted diseases are far more rampant among homosexual communities than they are in heterosexual communities. Why is that?
Oh yeah, and what's with the term homophobic? It's completely inaccurate. That means we are afraid of homosexuals. I am not afraid of homosexuals, not even a little bit. I simply think they are fake, disgusting, and not natural.
One thing that really bothers me is that gay men still use the men's shower at the gym. How would you like it if you knew a stranger was looking at you in the shower and getting sexually excited...gross. Just imagine if men were allowed into the womens shower, would they become sexually aroused, of course they would. The same goes for homosexuals.

Answer 4

OK. Here's my opinion, for what it is worth:

I do not care what consenting adults do in private. As long as everyone is truly in agreement, and wants to participate, I do not care who is involved, how many, or what they do.

Go in a room, or some other entirely private space, with other like-minded ADULTS, shut the door, and do whatever you enjoy- in private. It is up to you.

That includes ME. I have my own personal tastes and preferences, and it does not matter, it is nobody's business, what they are. As long as everybody is willing, anything goes.

Men and men, men and women, women and women - I don't really care.

Love matters, and self-respect, and respect for others, and their choices, and compassion, acceptance, tolerance, and pleasure.
Be happy; enjoy!

Everyone else does not necessarily have to hear all about it, either, whoever you are, or whomever you choose to love! :-))

Answer 5

I think it is unnatural and simply wrong. But, ultimately, it is no more wrong than telling a lie, or adultery, or even murder. Sin is sin, no matter what way you try and color it. There is no cause to hate a person for their sin, we've all got plenty of our own. But we can love them, and build safe and stable relationships with them. With the hopes that they will one day realize the depth of the mistake they made choosing to be gay.

Answer 6

I honestly don't have any problem w/ gays, but I believe that those who do are really looking for a way to vent thier insecurities, not necessarily w/ thier sexualities, but w/ the world in general that they don't understand and it comes out in anger, as has been the favored way in past ages for those things to be realated.

Answer 7

Gay people are sometimes nicer than straight people. At least to me, they are sincere and have shown concern towards me, as sisters.

It is also none of my business if they are like that. Do you think they want it this way! Don't think so.

Tolerance is the key word and love for all is another.

Answer 8

I have a family member who is gay and although I may not prefer it he is who he is and I love him no matter what. We have a lot of gay clients and they are the kindest most sincere people I have ever met. To each their own !

Answer 9

People who are bothered by homosexuality are not comfortable about their own sexuality. Honestly, I couldn't careless whether or not someone is gay. None of my business.

Answer 10

well i feel like this about it , i don't like it , i think it's gross , i don't want my children seeing it , and god hates it and so do i , the act itself. ok now i do not think anyone should be picked on because thier gay or bad things said to them nor defently no harm should ever come to them, they are human beings after all. now you take that boy those 2 guys singled out at a bar cause he was gay and killed him on that fence post , that was horrible , that should never ever happen to anyone period