When religion is removed from the equation, what reasons are there for disliking homosexuality?

Answer 1

Hi there
There is not a correct answer here, as we all react differently to each situation.
But the biggest reason is NARROW-MINDED, because if people were not narrow minded then they, would not fear, hate nor be ignorant.
If only people opened their minds to others, this world would be a nicer place to live in!
Regards
Pav xx

Answer 2

The way I see it, religion was an excuse. The real reason behind it all was someone was afraid of something new or different.

Human nature is programmed today along with millenia past that humans fear what they don't understand. Yes, Professor X was right. People fear what they don't understand.

Let's take for example.... Dragons!

All over the world, there are dinosaur fossils, right? People wayyyy long ago had no idea what these bones came from. They were BIG. They were bigger than anything else they've ever seen! What kind of creature could have such bones!?

Seing a bunch of bones on the ground gets the imagination working. It turns the bones into puzzle pieces and the mind tries to put them together. They come up with something massive, something magical, some mystical... a dragon.

They feared the dragon! They didn't understand it fully, but they feared something that big that was considered a killing machine!

So I believe this is what happened. One day, a man (or woman) was taught the concept of homosexuality and how it was normal. He didn't understand why two people would do that. He was scared because he didn't understand it. Unlike others however, he was dumb enough to make an excuse... religion.

So really, homophobia is a learned behavior that someone developed around so many years ago, and created god as his excuse. He condemned everything he didn't get through his thick little head....

-Why is a guy kissing a guy? That's sick, I don't get it. Condemn them! But girls can still kiss girls, thats alright. ~_^

-Why are people eating bugs and oysters? I don't like how they taste, condemn them!

-I hate being dirty! I don't want to chop up animals! Condemn it!!

And so on and so forth. Eventually, everyone else started believing him and now we have what we have today. The big feud on Christianity.

Answer 3

Ignorance, fear, Jealousy.

1) Ignorance is a strong reason for disliking homosexality. People may think AIDS is a product of all gays, that it is communicable by touch and/or airborne (I.E.: Sneezing). People are ignorant to the fact that homosexuals are humans like themselves.

2) Fear is the reason for many obstacles within our (Mankind's) history. Fear leads to mistrust, which leads to anger, which evolves into hatred. People fear what they do not understand. Disliking homosexuality is just the next in a long line of dislikes. Before this, there were Africans, before that Jews etc...

3) Jealousy... of what? Gay means happy, because when homosexuals decided to be free homosexuals, they accepted themselves as a whole. and lived happier lives. Hundreds of people everyday are finding out things about themselves. Happiness is becoming whole. Nothing feels better than that. If only everyone could be whole regardless of sexual preference.

Answer 4

Its different. It doesnt fit within the norms of society. A mother a father, 2 or 3 kids, and nice 3x2 and a merc. It doent work when there are two men or women because people dont grow up wanting that from life if you get my idea. It scares people because its not what has beem grown up with. Its not accepted through the church and because most laws and standard tradition are born from christianity in western socity it means our society has learnt through generations that homosexuality shouldnt be accepted or tolerated. Its stupid and ignorant but its going to be this way for a long time. Its slowly changing but change takes time.

Answer 5

Religion isn't the only source of bigotry, and removing religion from the equation (which in practice I don't even think is possible - even if someone is personally irreligious/atheist, they're still in a society where religion is/has been a major shaping factor) doesn't particularly limit the number of justifications people can invent for it.

I've encountered more people than I can count who claimed that because their justifications for claiming queer people are inherently inferior were not based on Aberahamic religious texts, they were therefor "natural," "scientific," "objective," etc. These were people every bit as fundamentalist in their supremacist claims as Fred Phelps and co.

Their "arguments" consisted of everything from "homosexuality is against nature since evolutionarily the whole point of life is to breed," to some vague concept that the universe itself is a sentient being that disapproved of homosexuality.

Not to mention the more complex, frankly Nazi-esque lines of reasoning that take the "social darsinism" schtick (the same basis as the "you're anti-evolutionary" bullshit) to its logical exgtreme, essentially denouncing us as vermin contaminating the gene pool.

And just as unreligious/anti-religious perspectives don't necessarily mean one is therefor coming from a "rational" or "reasonable" POV, or that one will necessarily not be anti-gay, being self-consciously religious doesn't necessarily mean that one is coming from an "irrational" or automatically anti-queer perspective.

As often as I've heard self-described atheists tell me I'm a perversion of the "natural evolutionary order," I've seen clergy from many religions, as well as simply devout laypeople come to the defense of our dignity and humanity. A large and powerful segment of American fundamentalist Protestantism has made opposition to our rights and dignity a core of their "ministry," but they're still only one group among many, and religious people aren't by definition our enemies - we have a lot of allies in houses of worship. And a lot of enemies outside them.

Answer 6

Where to begin:
1. it's a very difficult and often lonely life
2. it's addictive
3. It's too dramatic and almost never peaceful
4. It leaves so many questions unanswered
5. You can't have children and family
6. Most gay people are hated and become isolated or live in ghettos
7. No one seems to understand - you have religious screamers on one side and happy-face police on the other
8. It makes earning a living and doing great things very difficult
9. It's hard to maintain long-term friendships

Of course, it can also make you very strong. If you can stand up to it all and become your own self, you can be VERY strong.
But an easy life - never.

Answer 7

again i must ask....what makes anyone think that Jesus would have hated a homosexual?

sorry for putting religion back in the equation...but thats just how i feel about stuff like this.

anyhow...it all boils down to choice, values, how ppl are raised and so on and so forth. im very sure thier are some very non religious ppl who find homosexuality disgusting. those who never refer to the bible or whatever to back up what they say or feel....ppl will always have different opinions on the subject of homosexuality.

Answer 8

That begs the question:

Why is homosexuality looked down upon in Atheist countries such as China and north Korea?

I'm sure there is a long answer, and it deals with the fact that they are different from "most people"...and if you ain't like most people you are singled out as wrong...as people are dumb

Answer 9

People fear most in life what they dont understand. Some straight people dont understand why and man and another man (or women and women) would want to be together. Its really not a matter of dislike, its a question of fear.

Answer 10

The 'if it feels good, do it" attitude is not a good choice to make for a happy and healthy life. People need to deny themselves of pleasures today for the greater good for the future. People who adopt the hedonistic lifestyle will always feel as they need just a little more in their life to make them completely happy. But even when they do obtain their goal, they find that they still aren't fulfilled. This causes depression and other feelings of inadequacy.