Red Dawn
Senior Member
a lot of social conservatives go to great lengths to claim they don't "hate" gays.
Hate is a charged word. But its pretty simple to determine if they have a bias or prejudice against gays.
Homosexuality is a natural condition in the animal world, and in mammals broadly. When you see a social conservative say its "not natural", its pretty clear they are excersing a deep seated personal prejudice against gays; one that is not surpported by science in any way . The other possibility is that, like charlie bass and larry craig, they are secretly terrified of their own closet gay fantasies, and it comes out hatred towards openly gay people. Its self-loathing, a well established concept in psychology.
the other type of soicial conservative will hide behind the bible as a smokescreen to justify their prejudice. The bible hardly says anything about gays; and Jesus never said not one word. But these social conservative obsess about the few and sparse biblical admonitions about homosexuality. You know what? The bible says a LOT of shit is sinful. Shit that nobody pays attention to and ignores. Like stoning adulterers to death, or beating the crap out of an unruly child. There's a lot things the bible claims is sinful, but are roundly ignored by everyone including social conservatives.
Why then, do they pick out one or two passages in the bible about two guys getting it on? Why pick on that one sin, to the exclusion of all the other silly "sins" that are roundly ignored in the bible?
Obviously, its because they use the bible as a smokescreen to justify their own prejudice.
Why not be honest about it? Don't hide behind the bible. We all have biases and prejudices, including myself.
You seem to be saying that having a bias = hate. If that's not what you're saying you went to a lot of trouble to not say it.
No. I use the word bias because “hate” is a completely subjective word. No one will ever fess up to being a hater; even William Joyce, I suspect, will claim he doesn’t “hate” black people. And no one can really tell what’s in another person’s heart.
Bias and prejudice are easily identifiable and objective.
That dude who implied gays were freaks and unnatural, because “animals don’t do homosexuality”, is hiding his prejudice behind sheer ignorance and scientific illiteracy. Homosexuality is present and well-documented in the animal world. So, that dude is quite obviously trying to hide his prejudice behind bogus pseudo science.
The bible thumpers are quite obviously hiding behind the bible to cloak their own personal prejudice against gays. The bible says virtually nothing about homosexuality, and homosexuality must have not even been considered a major sin. Its not in the ten commandments, its not one of the seven deadly sins, and Jesus never said one damn word about it. The fact that many social conservatives make it their personal crusade to obsess about homosexuality says more about them, than it does about the bible. They are quite obviously hiding behind the bible to pursue their own personal prejudice.