why is it that people are against gay people?

Question

and gay marriage. it doesn't hurt you in any way, it doesn't make the earth suddonly explode, and it doesn't have any negative effects on anything. also, why are people against gay people? every single person on this earth is a homosapian, sexual prefferance has nothing to do with making some one more or less of a person. homosexual relationships used to be encouraged, and seen as a good thing, as well as the ultimate form of male pride. homosexuality is not a chioce, it is 100% all natural. homosexuality is not only in humans. there are other animas such as dolphins, that are gay or bisexual. can someone help me understand what the hell is going on here with all of the hate.

Answer 1

The bible is used as justification to spread hate and bigotry.

I am sure the answers you get will prove exactly what I am saying.

There will be NO Christian love on this one.

Answer 2

Some people attack homosexuals personally due to ignorance and blind hatred, true. Others, such as myself, think that sexual behavior of humans does have moral implications, and therefore each such practice requires rational justification. No, the world does not blow up, but bad things can happen more slowly, over time, to completely unhinge a society. Countries that abandon the rational basis of marriage as procreation, and opt instead for anything-goes sex coupling, have experienced a dramatic falloff in marriages generally. If society is getting any benefits from stable, biologically natural parenting, those benefits will be lost when biologically natural parenting is abandoned. Maryland's highest court recently agreed with this principle that, from the state's point of view, marriage is primarily a forum for natural procreation, and therefore deserves protection as an exclusively heterosexual institution.

Christians and other theists take it farther and suggest that since God designed marriage according to His own purposes, to sustain the biological race in a context of love, those purposes should be reverently accepted. Jesus confirmed this when he set out the divine plan for marriage as being a man leaving his parents and staying with his woman in a permanent bond of union. For the Christian, Jesus speaks as God. Therefore, no alternatives to the pattern have God’s approval. This means that neither divorcing heterosexuals or marrying homosexuals can comply with that pattern. The law should really encourage neither behavior. Divorce does great violence to the minds of innocent children, and as gay unions are typically much less stable than even divorcing heterosexuals, encouraging hundreds of partners per year, often on anonymous terms, as in the Senator Craig flap, children tend to not do so well under such circumstances.

Having said all that, society is not the Church. The law should be written so that people can disagree about these things without resorting to violence. Much of the hate in this conflict is not coming from those favoring a naturally procreative definition for marriage. Google the Hamilton Square Baptist Church incident, and see real hatred at work, as gay protesters try to bang down the doors of a San Francisco church in 1993, verbally threatening nine-year-old children with sexual assault and seriously traumatizing them. Where is the love in that? No, hate is bad, but promoting random, biologically meaningless sex, and painting every honest person who opposes it on moral grounds as a homophobe, can only make matters worse. The demonizing must stop. We can disagree without hate. In fact, sometimes we express our love best by disapproving what can only bring harm. If you do not agree, well and good, but try at least to understand. There is love here. It only waits to be seen.

Answer 3

I think that it's just because a huge number of people wouldn't know how to exist if they didn't have someone to hate in such a mindless way--you'll notice the extremely violent level of disapproval with which they speak out against us (clearly proof of mental immaturity, even psychotic delusion). And in more than a few cases I can honestly say that Shakespeare's famous quote "methinks that thou protests too much," applies--I work with a sergeant who expresses such an intense hatred of gays--and I could swear that he strikes me as the "in the closet" type.

What makes matters worse is that religion gives so much permission to it's followers to act just this way. And in the above-mentioned sergeant's case religion is his crutch which he leans on so often in his attacks on us.

Answer 4

It is what they were taught to believe- suggesting they don't have minds of their own

It disgusts them- which only shows that they spend more time thinking about it then a person secure in their sexuality would

It is unnatural- which only proves their ignorance about sexuality studies in the animal kingdom

It is a choice- which suggests that they made the choice to be heterosexual and thus have the desire to be with the same sex but simply choose not to which is ridiculous

I have heard all the arguments and can easily counter every single one.The problem isn't that there is a rational reason to be anti gay, since there isn't one, the problem is that people have to have something to feel superior to.This is both a cultural thing as well as a religious thing.But you can guess where the "I am right because God tells me so" attitude stems from- religion.

Answer 5

I want to agree with you...

but get the H%^& out of religion and spirituality.

This is neither. This is philosophy or pollitics.

It is not a religious question (although some religions are involved) and this is not a spiritual question.

So go away, or ask about religion and spirituality. If you want to ask about it in regards homosexuality. Thats fine.


and to chang. I read the whole of your argument. and I liked it. I think you need to stop drinking out of the Ayn Rand punch for a month or so. But thats not a bad thing.

I think gays deserve certain rights. but I have to admit there beloved multi-culturalism is headed in that direction.

Answer 6

I agree with kma5one Gay people didnt choose to be gay. thats how they are born.

However there are some people those pretend to be gay when they are not. That is sad. You can only be gay if you are born gay. With the gay gene.

For example if someone is born with any sort of disability do you hate them because they are disable.

If a child is born blind and cant see do you hate that child because he or she is blind.

Imagine you have a child that is gay what would you do?
hate it for being gay.

Your child didnt asked to be born gay it just could well happen.

however if you dont have a single gay gene in your body then you are certainly not gay please dont pretend to be something that you are not.

please see the link below :

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArcO3yY0IJeNIZ4pwbeheVjty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070930142001AAaRAws&show=7#profile-info-pZF8Avaxaa

and do some personal research into the subject its not a choice that you choose to be gay. However in some cases stupidly enough that is what is happening where people are choosing to be gay., its a serious matter

Answer 7

It's simply a numbers game and the gay people are on the losing end of it. All of the other social , sexual and racial groups that at one time or another it was socially acceptable to prejudiced towards are now covered by Federal Laws that makes it it a crime to discriminate against them. Only the gay people are left without their proper Constitutional protection.
When you think about it ,GWB by coming out against gay rights is in violation of his oath of office because the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment should cover a gay persons right to be married and someday it will
If you think a little further on that, GWB's anti-abortion stand is also a violation of his oath of office because in taking that position he is stating that he wants to deny a group of Americans what the US Supreme Court has determined to be their Constitutional rights

Answer 8

It’s in the bible that G-d dislikes homosexuality and that it is an abomination. I think most people simply don’t understand and think that there is something very wrong with homosexuals. I’ve also heard Christians thinking that gays are possessed by the devil etc... However my belief is that it’s about what you do on Earth not what you believe. I think there are plenty of wonderful gay people and I have zero problem with them.

Answer 9

Thanks for sharing your opinion. However the Bible says, "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor 6:9,10

"God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator— who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." Rom 1:24-28

Jude 1:7 "In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire."

Heb 13:4 "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

Furthermore Jesus said concerning marriage "at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’" of which he took as a precedent for marriage

Answer 10

That is what you get when you try to apply an out-dated social system to the modern era - it is used to foster discrimination. People are people and however their sexuality develops is natural to them.

I live in CT, very close to MA so I'm up there a lot - it's still there by the way even though they have made marriage open to all of its residents no matter their sexuality. It hasn't collapsed in moral decay; in fact, I'd say it is the most moral state going - it won't stand for the discrimination that others will.

I can proudly say that I stood up for a gay friend of mine who married his partner of 20 years. I wouldn't have traded it for the world.

Answer 11

Are you asking about gay marriage, or about homosexual behavior in general?

There are many arguments for and against changing the time honored legal definition of marriage, some on economic grounds, some on social grounds, some on religious grounds.

You cannot assume that people hate you just because they disagree with you, or just because they do not support your politics. That is childish.

On the other hand, I understand that some people actually do hate you. I cannot answer for them.

But for you question about gay marriage, I will try to give you a summary:
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1. Gay and lesbian people have a right to form meaningful relationships. They don’t have a right to redefine marriage for all of us.

2. Same-sex families always deny children either their mother or father.

3. Same-sex family is a vast, untested social experiment with children.

4. Where does it stop? How do we say "no" to group marriage? Schools will be forced to teach that the homosexual family is normal. Churches will be legally pressured to perform same-sex ceremonies.

5. No society, at any time, has ever raised a generation of children in same-sex families.

6. Same-sex “marriage” will subject generations of children to the status of lab rats in the name of a vast, untested social experiment.

7. America has raised millions of children in fatherless families for three decades and that experiment was a stunning failure by every measure! We know how damaging it is to raise children in intentionally fatherless families. Let’s not create more child-suffering to satisfy adult desire.
Thousands of published social science, psychological and medical studies show that children living in fatherless families, on average, suffer dramatically in every important measure of well-being. These children suffer from much higher levels of physical and mental illness, educational failure, poverty, substance abuse, criminal behavior, loneliness, as well as physical and sexual abuse.1 Children living apart from both biological parents are eight times more likely to die of maltreatment than children living with their mother and father.

8. If this were just about your family, there would be no real danger. But same-sex “marriage” advocates are not seeking marriage for you alone, but rather demanding me — and all of us — to radically change our understanding of family. And that will do great damage.

9. Your same-sex family will teach my little boys and girls that husband/wife and mother/father are merely optional for the family and therefore, meaningless. And I will never allow my children to be taught that their gender doesn’t matter for the family.