Why? Homosexuality is an action just like stealing or cheating on your wife, so why is it considered bigotry to think an action itself is ultimately wrong? Why do people try to force this belief on me that sodomy is acceptable? I just think it's fundementally wrong like shooting a random guy. It's all wrong. Why hate because of a persons values?
How do you generally feel about your friend cheating on his wife? Would finding out that he was having an affair change your opinion of him? Why should homosexuality be any different?
2006-10-26 03:10:45 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have never said I hate homosexuals. I just don't agree with their lifestyle.
2006-10-26 03:52:31 · update #1
Your equating homosexuality with crimes and bad behavior. It is not a crime or bad behavior. You should, however, be allowed to not agree with homosexuality and not be called a bigot. If your disagreement with their lifestyle turns into violence or hateful acts specifically because of their sexual orientation then the situation changes.
2006-10-26 03:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by J D 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow - an action like stealing or cheating on your wife? If it's just an action, how about liking waffles more than pancakes or onions more than pickles?
No one is trying to get you to believe you should engage in sodomy. At best, people are trying to promote the idea that the way they live their lives is their own business.
That you relate it to cheating on a spouse really has me scratching my head. A single guy likes having sex with other single guys. Who's getting cheated on exactly?
Short answer: Thinking homosexuality is wrong doesn't make one a bigot. Being completely intolerant of people leading their own lives in their own way is what makes one a bigot.
2006-10-26 03:16:39 · answer #2 · answered by Ciaoenrico 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe you are a bigot if you disagree with how someone lives. BUT!!! you placed homosexuality in with the 10 commandments, equalling it to stealing and adultery... and it's not listed with the 10 commandments... It's listed in with the Priestly laws, which was a society thing.
No one is asking you to accept sodomy. Did anyone here ask you to perform it or let them perform it on you? I disagree with your view of it, as it is not like cheating at all... these are 2 adults, consenting to live together (actually, I know a homosexual couple that live together as if they are married, yet have not had sex in over 5 yrs....) I view this in the same way I view a heterosexual couple. I don't care what they are doing in their bedroom/house/garage/etc... I don't sit around and think about what kind of disgusting sex acts other people, straight or gay, are doing. I don't waste my time with it.
Though something I do find odd... are so many that speak out against homosexual marriage and homosexuality itself... drumming up verses from the bible to prove how wrong it is... yet, they don't have a problem with divorce... and Jesus himself spoke against divorce. Why are so many people hypocritical on this point? And so blantantly too! It's amazing what people will do in order to become the Police of other peoples lives.
*Not saying you are acting like the Police... just pointing out the hypocracy I see in this topic. And how these same people keep asking us non-Christians why we aren't Christians. It's truly pathetic to watch a blind person fumble around their own doctrines to justify their hatred of a thing* Again, I'm not pointing the finger directly at you... Because I don't think you're a bigot just because you feel homosexuality is wrong. That's your personal thing babe. *smile*
2006-10-26 04:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>>"Homosexuality is an action just like stealing or cheating on your wife, so why is it considered bigotry to think an action itself is ultimately wrong?"<<
for starters, this is incorrect.
Homosexuality is a personality trait just as Heterosexuallity is.
its *NOT* bigotry to think the ACTION of homosexual sex is wrong. to think BEING homosexual is wrong, is.
>>"Why do people try to force this belief on me that sodomy is acceptable?"<<
you are not distinguishing between things properly. nobody is trying to convince you of that, just that its as natural for those people to have those motives, just as it is for you to have heterosexual drives.
>>" I just think it's fundementally wrong like shooting a random guy. It's all wrong. Why hate because of a persons values?"<<
because you hate a person because of a personality trait they have no say over. its fundamentally wrong to believe another human is inferior because of their skin color.
its just as wrong to believe an attribute of someone's self that they can't help, is "wrong".
and its "reasonable" to hate someone who feels that way.
>>"How do you generally feel about your friend cheating on his wife? Would finding out that he was having an affair change your opinion of him?"<<
that is an action they have a choice about.
>>"Why should homosexuality be any different? "<<
because they have no more choice about it than they do their skin color.
2006-10-26 03:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a man cheats on his wife, then both man and his mistress commit an act against the wife. If a man steals from his employer, his employer loses. If a man has sex with another man... who loses? Who suffers? Your comparisons are utterly flawed, you would do better to say that it is homosexuality is an act like eating a bacon sandwich - very enjoyable for those taking part, and no harm to anyone else.
So yes, I'm afraid hating homosexuality makes you a bigot. Ironically, hating bigots DOESN'T make anyone a bigot. Deal.
2006-10-26 03:16:47 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get down to the root of the issue. Why do you think it's wrong? Because it violates your religious doctrine? Because you personally can't stomach the thought of two men or two women engaged in a sexual relationship?
Homosexuality is fundamentally the same as heterosexuality- two consenting adults entering into a physical and emotional relationship. The difference is that the two consenting adults in one case are the same gender, and in the other case different genders. You can't compare that to shooting a random person, or a man cheating on his wife. One is a senseless act of violence, which is wrong in and of itself, regardless of your religion. A man cheating on his wife has violated the covenant of their marriage vows. He has broken a promise, and made himself untrustworthy and has morally strayed.
In both cases, lives are ruined, and people get hurt very badly. How is two consenting adults finding love, happiness and pleasure together ruining anyone's life, just because they happen to be the same gender? You need to re-evaluate your morals, if you find something wrong with this. If you're disgusted by homosexuality because a personal preference for the opposite gender makes it unappealing, that's one thing. You shouldn't hate people who happen to have different tastes than you. If you think it's wrong because of your religious doctrine, perhaps you ought to re-evaluate a doctrine that calls for hate and persecution of someone who is different. That doesn't sound very Christ-like to me.
2006-10-26 03:26:06 · answer #6 · answered by E D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Josh, we don't care if you think homosexuality is wrong. You can think what you like. We don't think it's nice to give homosexuals a hard time. Leave them alone.
Gees, we are supposed to be an enlightened society. That means we don't enflict pain on others just because they don't think like we do. What harm to you if the folks next door are living it up and they're the same sex? I'm straight, it don't bother me none. It does bother me to hear some jerk gives them a hard time or beats them up. That's not right and don't hide behind religion or whatever to condone your hatred of a people who have done nothing to you. It's like jumping all over midgets 'cause they're short.
2006-10-26 03:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think homosexuality is ideal, but I have gay friends. I work in the arts, so I know many, including my art dealer. Likewise, there people who do not favor Christianity, but like me as a person. I also have other friends who do things I don't support, like cheat on their girlfriends, drink too much, or treat others poorly. I think what makes a person a bigot is their not being able to relate or care for people as people. They live in fear and intolerance. There are dangers in letting that grow in a person, for their emotional health, and culturally, which leads to violence.
2006-10-26 03:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If homosexuals act in the privacy of their own home what exactly are they forcing on you? You are expressing moral outrage at something which quite frankly should mean nothing to you. Do I agree with homosexuality no but I don't condemn it either because I take the view that what consenting adults do in privacy is their own business.
2006-10-26 03:21:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Homosexuality is more like finding and falling in love with your wife. Maybe it is wrong for heterosexuals to dip into homosexuality for kicks or something, I'm not sure . but for gays it is natural to be gay and anything else is unnatural...for them.
Homosexuality is a normal human variation like height or IQ and we can see here on Yahoo R&S how IQ can vary.
If a married man is going out getting gay sex he is probably a closet gay, maybe he got trapped in marriage trying to please everyone, his family, friends and religious community...this is the sad outcome of trying to be what you are not, more people end up getting hurt for no good reason. Honesty and acceptance of oneself and other people for who they really are is the only way forward.
2006-10-26 03:28:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋