2006-09-14 17:46:29 · 48 answers · asked by OnionSkin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
No. I think homophobia is a sickness.
2006-09-14 17:48:28 · answer #1 · answered by Skeff 6 · 9⤊ 5⤋
Condemnation of Homosexuality originated with the Bible. In cultures outside that influence it was considered perfectly acceptable, even, in some cultures, like Greece and Rome, the norm. It didn't become a sickness until it was made one by Sigmund Freud. In 1974 the American Psychological Association removed it from it's list of mental illnesses and declared it a perfectly normal form of human sexuality. The American Psychiatric Association followed suit in 1975. They did the same thing with BD/SM (first turned into a sickness by Richard Von Kraft-Ebbing in the late 1800s) in 1987/1988. Medically, not only is neither one a sickness, they are both considered normal. Granted, lots of people still think they're a sickness, but then, there was a time when lots of people thought the world was flat. Mark Twain put it best: "It ain't the things nobody knows that cause problems, it's the things everybody knows that ain't so".
2006-09-14 18:34:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The American Psychological Assn hasn't classed homosexuality as a mental illness for over 30 years. The ironic thing is that homophobia definitely is on the list.
Those who are speaking from their homophobic little gut will say it's a sickness and they don't care what some liberal idiot psychologists say. That pretty much speaks for the intelligence level and problematic mind of the homophobic all by itself doesn't it?
2006-09-14 18:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I do not think it is a sickness. In fact, I think it is part of a wellness that could help those stuck in hate/fear filled minds.
I think we live many lifetimes and throughout those lives we have been in male and female bodies.
I think that the more evolved we are, the more we are able to see beyond gender and into the beautiful soul of the people around us. The package becomes less important.
2006-09-14 17:59:45 · answer #4 · answered by Mimi Di 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a strange question for at least forty years, it's been known and reported that gayness is a normal birth anomaly and thus can not be considered an illness or changeable.
You might have missed the study that shows gays & transgenders to have higher I.Qs. on average than straights. Maybe that's why you didn't catch the first study.
Tammi Dee
2006-09-14 18:01:55 · answer #5 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
sOs,
GREAT question!
I think that it is a condition. No matter how it was procured. The condition is a sin. I really believe that. I think that all the ways we think and sometimes just the way we are, are products of the nature of sin.
Now the Fundies come and try to rub it in our faces. Telling us that what we are is unpardonable. I can prove them wrong scripturally, so I'm here at times to combat them. I hope I didn't miss that opportunity tonight.
Another angle to your question is for those that would agree to it being a sickness. Please follow this:
If someone is going to call a person 'sick' , especially for being GLBT, then they have admitted something that they commonly overlook. because their act of namecalling is usually included in an attack.
Tell me, If you knew that someone was sick, how would you treat them? Would you yell at them? Call them names. Threaten violence? Tell dirty jokes about them where they could see or hear you doing it? Gang up on them with your friends? Tease them incessantly?
To me this behavior is common. And yet they say, wrong or right, that the GLBT in question is sick.
I hope that their grandmother never gets sick!
2006-09-14 17:56:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
NO why do you think that you are a normal person just like enybody els a gay person has just more of the opposite sex I know God loves you yhe why you are e-mail me if you want to talk on heinodt@yahoo.com and get that thing out of your head its not a sickness
2006-09-14 17:58:31 · answer #7 · answered by Heino D 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No but I like jokingly roleplaying with male homophobes who tell me that I'm sick for being gay. I tell them to be the Doctor while I'll be the patient. After roleplaying with the homophobe, he usually like me after that, must be contagious. =oP
*tongue in cheek*
2006-09-14 18:18:47 · answer #8 · answered by What'd You Say? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a sick ignorance to believe that being gay is a sickness! It's not contagious or a choice, either.
You are born with your sexual orientation whatever it is. Is that really so difficult to understand?
2006-09-14 17:49:24 · answer #9 · answered by Alex62 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I am not gay, but to THINK that being gay is a sickness, is a sickness.
2006-09-14 18:10:52 · answer #10 · answered by Monsieur Rick 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
i dont think its sick..its just happens..your not born gay..some people are different...im so sick of gay people being bashed by everyone...if you dont like it i think you should just not even speak about it...being gay is serious...how do you think us gays feel about being gay?do you think we like people starring at us and talking about us?or doing hatefull things...live a day in a gays person live and see how it feels...sickness it is not...in their jeans its not there either...i wish i knew why i was attracted to the same sex...
2006-09-14 17:53:02 · answer #11 · answered by chew 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋