Is homosexuality the real cause of homophobia?

Question

Should anti-gay Christians place the blame for institutional religious homophobia on gays?

Answer 1

broccoli makes me sick....I'm not afraid of it

Answer 2

This is perhaps the most bizarre question I've yet read on YA.

You might as well ask if tall buildings are responsible for Acrophobia, or if kitchen stoves are the cause of Obsessive Cumpulsive Disorder.

Obviously, if there were no homosexuals, then homophobia would not exist. But this is not, and has never been the case. If you are afflicted with the irrational mental disorder called homophobia then the cause and fault lie entirely within you and nowhere else.

Nope. Not gay...because I'm sure you were wondering.

Answer 3

No! and why is it always christians used for examples as anti-gays?!?!?! i am christian and i have no problem with gays whatsoever being gay does not make anyone a bad or good person.
Ignorance is the cause of homophobia and people being too set in their ways.

Answer 4

No place it on the book they think they read. It also tells them to stone women and kill children, but they tend to ignore those suggestions. Homosexuality must take some blame because there could be no fear of it if it didn't exist, but this is on the same level as blaming a building for being tall if you are afraid of heights. I never found that what was happening in someone else's bedroom-kitchen-closet-etc. was any of my business unless they asked me, or post it on the web. Just kidding FBI.

Answer 5

I feel the real cause of homophobia is fear of the unknown. Some people don't realize that just because something is different from what they would choose, doesn't mean it's wrong or something to fear.

I meditate and pray for open-mindedness for the world as often as I can.

Answer 6

Homosexuality has nothing to do with homophobia.

Ignorance is the cause of homophobia.

Answer 7

Um, well, homophobia probably sprouts from the Bible, where God says "Do not lay immpassioned with a man as you would a woman." Why? Cause that's an easy way to get AIDS. And sex is for making babies, which two men obivously cannot do. Thus, it goes against nature, and is therefore unnatural. Yanno? The people aren't what I don't like though, it's the actions between them.

Answer 8

Is extreme love of Christ the real cause for atheism?

No and No. In some instances, maybe, but in most its just ignorance (homophobia, not atheism). People used to think you could get AIDS by sharing a water fountain.

Answer 9

no it isnt, well first it starts with being told that homosexuality is wrong and that you will go to hell for being one, Every one is sexual in nature, when you are young it is you are attracted to men and women equally, then as you get older you develope preferences, and the preferencees continue as you age, what color hair, eyes, personality. I think that most homophobes have homosexual tendancies and are scared by those feelings due to being told that those felings are wrong at a young age and take the anger out on homosexuals.

Answer 10

A "phobia" is an anxiety disorder triggered by a percieved threat...existing or not. People with phobias have especially powerful imaginations, so they vividly anticipate terrifying consequences from encountering such feared objects as knives, bridges, blood, enclosed places, certain animals or situations.

Internalized homophobia (or ego-dystonic homophobia) refers to homophobia as a prejudice carried by individuals against homosexual manifestations in themselves and others. It causes severe discomfort with or disapproval of one's own sexual orientation.

A component considered to play into homophobia, as considered by some theorists, such as Calvin Thomas and Judith Butler, is an individual's fear of being identified as gay.

This notion suggests that when expressing homophobic viewpoints and emotions, the individual who does so is not only expressing his thoughts as to gay people, but also actively attempting to distance himself from this category and attributed social status. Therefore, by distancing him or herself from the people in question, he/she is reaffirming his/her role as a heterosexual, within heteronormativity, and contributing to the avoidance of his/her potential labeling and consequent treatment as a gay person.

Answer 11

The lack of willingness to commit wholly to God is the reason for homophobia. Understand, bisexual conduct whether it is within or exhibited is a sin. But if God exists within you through Jesus Christ, then your walk and your relationship without blemish will replace the need for false desires of the flesh.

Do you not know that homosexuality is the purest form of sexual sin (lust). That every man and women who lusts after another accepts this abomination in. The only difference is that as people we do not ordinarily accept the pure form of these abominations. (my strengths and weaknesses)

Tell everyone who suffers in sin about changes when the spirit of homosexuality comes to shake themselves loose.