Homosexuals have been around as long as straight people, yet they are still regarded as "strange" and "taboo." As America leans farther right, it seems that gay acceptance is taking a step back instead forward.
Note: I am not gay, but I do believe in equal rights for every law-abiding citizen regardless of race, sex, and sexuality....
2006-09-21 07:40:47 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
more tolerated yes, but never FULLY acceptable
2006-09-21 07:43:13 · answer #1 · answered by Flower 4 · 1⤊ 6⤋
People need to realize that these kinds of social changes take years and years and years. Slavery was still accepted less than 150 years ago, which is only a couple generations and racism is still an issue, particularly in the south. With homosexuality, you have the whole religious thing in the way so it will take even longer. There's no even curve, it might appear to you that we're taking a step backward but the truth is that things are happening too slowly for any real changes in the near future.
2006-09-21 07:50:04 · answer #2 · answered by billysimas 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, why do Religious Zealots ALWAYS link the issue of sexuality to God and Religion? As if fornicators and adulterers are any less sinful... geeze ... Jesus Christ never once discriminated.. but his so called "Modern Followers" are so arrogant and judgemental!! Get off your throne of Pride and Vanity ( Pride is one of the 7 deadly sins... Homosexuality isnt)
1. Homosexuality was accepted in the Romans and Greeks Golden era. But society seems tohave gone backwards...
2. As you can already see, due to close mindedness.. acceptence of everyone as being JUST HUMAN is still a long way to go. Apart from Sexuality, other forms of discrimination of the modern times are Gender, Racial and Religious
3. For those that rejoice in the persecution of gay people BECAUSE its a sin thing... don't rant and rave when others treat you as a leper because of your faith. How would you feel if your brother, sister, cousin, uncle or aunty is pummelled alive just because they are gay? Are you gonna join the mob to beat them up too?
I am not gay, but I have a very close friend who is kind and caring to all whom he meets regardless of sexuality is. He was beaten up by a bunch of idiots in the name of "religion", lucky he survived. I wonder who God will send to the eternal pit on end day, a kind and caring gay or a vicious and violent "saved soul". If the latter is the case... THAT heaven is filled with wicked hearted people under the cover of "being saved"... who wants to enter a heaven like that, anyway?
Violence has lead to so much pain and despair, more of it isnt gonna make this world a better place.
2006-09-21 07:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by Tiara 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. People are too close minded. I dont have a thing against gay people. I have a few friends who are gay. I respect them just as much as my other friends. I find myself completely shocked sometimes when I hear some of the things my own friends and family say about gay people. Another big reason it wont become acceptable in America is because christians believe it is the worst thing that you could possibly do and there sure are a LOT of christians......... uphill battle. I give a lot of credit to the brave gay people of America.
2006-09-21 07:49:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I laughed harder at the "as America leans farther right" as I did on whether homosexuality will ever become full acceptable in America". The reason it can be talked about so openly today is not from America leaning right, but first traveling left. To the right-wingers, homosexuals are not law-abiding--left-wingers took away the laws against it in order to make them "law abiding." Strangeness is an issue of proportion, and since most Americans are heterosexuals, homosexuality will continue to be, as it historically always has been, "strange". Since folks know it is "taboo", as in socially unacceptable, but want to flaunt the behavior anyway, that flagrent rejection of social norms and mores is going to automatically translate into acceptance? Guess again. Being different in and of itself generates a wall against acceptance but overt display of socially unaccepted behavior builds its own resistence. Gay raging against straight may cow some of those who are straight, but for others, permit me to coin a new word, instead of homophobia you get homo-odium. Most folks are amazingly tolerant of a wide range of things, but pushing the envelope sometimes topples tolerance when not done carefully.
2006-09-21 08:06:17 · answer #5 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Great question Jonny, but as you can see by so many of the answers on here, there's not a snowball's chance of the zealots or their equally ignorant offspring ever accepting gays.
The answers here that crack me up the most are those who say they are Christians and are non-judging but then go on to call gays disgusting and vile. - Lots of really loving folks in that Christian community!
Where's the Church Lady when you need her? I guess we've found her reincarnations as the fat dumb and happy folks answering Yahoo Answers.
Is there a chance we could enlist them all in the Taliban to channel all their hatred into an equally ignorant calling?
God save me and protect me from your followers - they are some mean and ignorant sob's.
2006-09-23 08:23:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well actually there have been at least one culture that revered the homosexual men. The American Indians say gay men as two spirits and they were used as high council on matters of relationships and such. This was because gay men saw both sides to the issue.
Will we ever have equal rights, Yes. However we like the African American will fight for many decades and it will not be easy and it will not be readily accepted.
on a side note, too bad you are not gay, woof..totally cute. i would ask you out on a date.
2006-09-21 07:59:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe there will always be some type of prejudice or fear regarding same sex relationships; as much as we have in America, those who share the same views towards Afro-Americans. This particular group of stonewallers, will hold to old indoctrinated beliefs as an old oak tree during a hurricane. Either it will bend or break at some point.
2006-09-21 10:05:31 · answer #8 · answered by Swordfish 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that homosexuality will ever be fully accepted in America. America has been declining in morals at a heavy rate since the 60s especially. Homosexuality is strange. I am not going to judge it though, because that is not my place to do so. I consider it fairly disgusting, and sinfull, but then again, stealing, or having sex before marriage is just as sinful. You are right to say that America leans further to the right. Most people do not accept homosexuality. Especially in the midwest. They are outcasts in small, remote areas. The only way they are accepted is if it is a large, and liberal city. Even then, they are not fully accepted. I don't believe that they ever will be. It's sorta like that one story in the Bible about Soddom and Gommora. The town was full of homosexuals, and there were only but a few that were pure and holy. That city burned in brimstone and ashes becuase of its wickedness. I do believe that in the end times, there will be much homosexuality.
I am not gay, and do not believe that it is right. I am not to judge though. People can do whatever they want with thier lives, and I don't hold it against them, but don't support them in their sin. many people feel this way. I hope this sorta answers your question.
2006-09-21 07:59:51 · answer #9 · answered by Cyber Spacer 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Heterosexual men and women have been around together since the beginning of humanity, yet even we both discriminate against each other, and many don't accept each other. Many men still think women are inferior, and many women still think men are inferior, the stupidity has been here for ages. So gays are in line like everyone else who suffers from non-acceptance from others.
2006-09-21 07:43:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no...but that holds true for many things not just gays...there will always be racist and bigots in the world all anyone can do is overlook the blindness of narrow minded people and live their lives to the fullest and love those around them who do accept.
2006-09-21 08:39:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋