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SciPhile
New Member
USA
7 Posts |
 Posted - 10/20/2010 : 07:16:04
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"How Science Defends Homosexuality"
http://wp.me/p13ype-a3
[Moved to the Social Issues folder - Dave W.]
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
 Posted - 10/20/2010 : 09:49:08 [Permalink]
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Welcome to SFN SciPhile. Nice site. For those of you who haven't read our latest summary, I featured the above site as my Evil Pick. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Baxter
Skeptic Friend
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 10/21/2010 : 07:21:46 [Permalink]
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Why do people throw around the word "homophobia" (or homophobic) so loosely? To me, it seems like it's mostly an appeal to emotion.
If someone is "anti-gay", they may be bigoted but it doesn't necessarily mean that they are phobic.
When I was an evangelical Christian, I was against any support for gays, but it had nothing to do with fear. |
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." ~from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know." ~Robert G. Ingersoll
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SciPhile
New Member
USA
7 Posts |
Posted - 10/21/2010 : 21:17:40 [Permalink]
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| I agree with your distinction between bigotry and actual phobia. However I find that for the practical purpose of defending homosexuality, the worst offenders are some combination of the two. I guess I was relying on a sort of cultural truism that bigots are also homophobic. |
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