How is homosexuality a threat to you?

Question

If someone's lifestyle is no threat to you, then why must you continually call them names and behave disrespectfully?

I want to know how homosexuality affects you adversely, and on a personal level.

I'm betting it doesn't.

primoa...how is it a direct threat?

andertwinsen...I direct this question at those who do. After 8 months in this forum, I have seen it happen many times.

Joel....heterosexual female here. I'm not gay, nor am I bi.

Answer 1

It doesn't.

Except at formal dinners because they always have better suits.

Answer 2

I know that this is so cliche, but I have quite a few gay friends, and I truly believe that they are among the most creative and inspired people I know. Just think how ugly this world would be without the sense of beauty they bring to our world. This is not to say that heterosexuals have no sense of beauty, they do.
People who hate any group of other people are the real threat on any level.
Homosexuality is not a threat to anyone.

Answer 3

I get frustrated by the many people calling our sexual orientation a 'lifestyle'. They think we like to have sex all the time with anyone we see on the street. That's not the case. I'm a homosexual man, and I NEVER chose to be the way I am. I was NEVER molested or raped, and my family is VERY religious, and virtually everyone I know is homophobic, and I'm a gay guy, how would they explain that? Did anyone of them CHOOSE to like the opposite sex and not the same sex?
Why would they think we're a threat to the society? I'm just a guy who happens to like men, and that's it! I'm not a pedophile and I won't go around bitching about heterosexual couples, I won't pick on them and call them names, I won't try to 'destroy' their families. I only ask to be treated like everyone else, because I'm a human like everyone else.

Answer 4

Aww can't you just feel the Christian love when reading their replies? I just feel so loved knowing that in their minds I am and evil person bent on world domination and out to corrupt society.


It is not threat to them whatsoever, they are just paranoid conspiracy theorists who think that everybody that isn't striaght wants to get into their pants or something. I have about as much interest in dating a straight woman as I do a gay man...none, it wouldn't work wrong sexual orientation! Who'd want to be with someone who doesn't find them attractive? I'll date lesbians and I'll date straight men...and of course other bisexuals. (I'm bisexual.)

I love it how they whine about how gays and lesbians are out to destroy the moral fabric of society. If anything I think it's the opposite, I think for the most part gays and lesbians improve the morals by showing and teaching tolerance and compassion. It's the bigots that are destroying things what with their trying to have their religion encoded into the law and preaching hate.

Answer 5

Honestly I don't think it as a threat to anyone but more of a misunderstanding of how the homosexual community lives and carries out thier lifestyle. It is also how the bashers/homophobes were raised by thier one sided parents/grandparents, and if you count thier religious ways and beliefs. I just wish people were a little bit more open-minded of the gay community, I being oneas well - gay, and see how we live our lives is no different then how a "normal" relationship should be/is. I still don't see it as a threat some people agree and some disagree with this lifestyle and there, unfortunatly nothing any of us can do to persuade this.

Answer 6

I'm enjoying reading the ridiculous replies by the homophobes and their totally wrong perceptions of what we are (LGBTs). It's so typical of the male dominated, Western philosophy which screws everything up via the dualism. Anything that doesn't fit the narrow definition of "maleness" and how women are percieved (i.e. chattels, sex objects, or eye candy, etc.) in relation to their perceived "masculinity", is demonized and reduced to a less-than-human level and therefore easy to destroy by any means necessary. Same psychology used to desensitize military units to killing the enemy... they can't be seen as "human" either, so they're called animalistic, derogatory names and so on.

The pathology from the homophobes I'm witnessing here is fascinating.

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Answer 7

Name calling and behaving disrespectfully shows a lack of respect for THEMSELVES. Even Jesus spoke to the "outcasts" of his day -- Lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, etc. So they can GET OFF their high horses when trying to defend disrepecting gay people. U are still human, u have a right and deserve to be treated the same as everyone else.

I grew up in NYC and it is not hidden nor are gay people there passive -- they will let U KNOW who they are and if u have a problem with it -- then U CAN GO!!

Let's praky for more tolerance!

Answer 8

Each person (in this case we're assume they're male) build their own version of masculinity as they develop into a person.

Men in Western cultures construct some of their sense of masculinity from images in TV, books, comic strips and movies, and some of their ideas they acquire from role models and peers.

Most developing males are insecure about their identities, but because insecurity and senstivity are not esteemed by their male peers, they have to act quickly to construct thier masculine identities.

This haste to build a masculine identity invariably leads to flawed and fragile constructions. These constructions are threatened by assertive women and by percieved 'feminity' in other males.

Consequently, many males who attack gays are acting compulsively, and really don't know why they behave this way. Gays, on the other hand, spend theiir lives being 'alien' and seeing through other people's mask's and lies.

This give gays an advantage on the emotional maturity meter, but doesn't equip themselves to be self-protecting against bullies.

Bullies, or males who feel insecure, sense the gays' inability to defend themselves, and are drawn like a magent to attack. A vicious circle of abuse ensures.

The only way to end this circle of abuse is for one party to say 'Enough' and to actvely detach from the exchange.

Answer 9

I have no problems with homosexuals or their practices and believe that they should enjoy every right heterosexuals enjoy. What they do to eachother does not affect me in any way.

I just don't want homosexual things done to me. It isn't a fear, just a preference.

Answer 10

Physically,it's no threat at all. Spiritually, on the other hand, it can be very damaging. Why? Because there is a homosexual agenda. That is to force everyone to say that homosexuality is not only acceptable, but the same as heterosexuality. Why is this a threat? For Christians, it is directly opposed to what is written in the Bible. For us to say that is to call God a liar, and confess that the Bible is not true. That would be blasphemy, and would violate our consciences. Is that what practicing homosexuals want? If I was doing something unacceptable to you, (like gay-bashing), and gay-bashing started becoming "socially acceptable," how long would you stand by and do nothing? Gay-bashing, name calling and other similar behaviors are wrong. No one should engage in them. At the same time, no one should try to make me accept something that is called "abomination" in the Bible. Given the choice between God and man, as far who's right, I'd have to fall on God's side.

Answer 11

It sure isn't a threat to me. Most Christians say they are against homosexuals being allowed to be married because they say they are protecting marriage, obviously because they fear that that would somehow break up their own marriage. They must mean they are afraid it would result in either their spouse running off with a member of the same sex or them doing so. Obviously people who feel threatened by homosexuality are very insecure with their own sexuality which is why hatred against homosexuals is so highly concentrated among Christians.