Is it homophobic because someone sees it as such?

[hard2miss]

No it isn't. Maybe you could expand your point.

 

Yes it was... whats that word where you draw up an exagerated example of soething in order to express something ?

 

It elludes me, but it was that.

 

---------- Post added 03-09-2013 at 01:02 ----------

 

Really, offended? that's weird I'm married and it didn't bother me at all.

Depends on how serious and what you thought marrage to be I suppose, to me it feels watered down.

 

I took great pride in the institute of marrage but whats a marrage mean anymore ?

[skinz]

I'm more than happy with my opinions I am anti gay or homophobic or whatever you want to label me,I have nothing to hide,why can homos say what they want protest in the streets even try and get the church to change its marage laws yet a normal hetrosexual man like me cant say anything without someone reporting you to the authorities.

 

So anyone you deem not like you is not a "normal heterosexual man"? I'm not homosexual and yet I'm nothing like you, I don't want to kill someone because of some wierd unhinged idea that I'm affected by the innocent actions of someone else. You are not normal.

 

Considering your (kill them) extremism have you considered....

 

 

"Latent homosexuality is an erotic inclination toward members of the same sex that is not consciously experienced or expressed in overt action. This may mean a hidden inclination or potential for interest in homosexual relationships, which is either suppressed or not recognized, and which has not yet been explored, or may never be explored.

The term was originally proposed by Sigmund Freud. Some argue that the latent homosexuality is a potentially iatrogenic effect (that is, it is not present until suggested by a therapist).[citation needed] Others argue that the term latent is not truly applicable in the case of homosexual urges, since they are often not in the unconscious or unexpressed category, but rather exist in the conscious mind and are (often violently) repressed on a conscious level.

 

A theory that homophobia is a result of latent homosexuality was put forth in the late 20th century. A 1996 study conducted at the University of Georgia by Henry Adams, Lester Wright Jr., and Bethany Lohr[1] indicates that a number of homophobic males exhibit latent homosexuality. The research was done on 64 heterosexual men, 35 of whom exhibited homophobic traits and 29 who did not. They were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The groups did not differ in aggression.[1]

Three tests were conducted using penile plethysmography. While there was no difference in response when the men were exposed to heterosexual and lesbian pornography, there was a major difference in response when the men were exposed to male homosexual pornography.

The researchers reported that 24% of the non-homophobic men showed some degree of tumescence in response to the male homosexual video, compared to 54% of the subjects who scored high on the homophobia scale. In addition, 66% of the non-homophobic group showed no significant increases in tumescence after this video, but only 20% of the homophobic men failed to display any arousal. Additionally, when the participants rated their degree of sexual arousal later, the homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by the male homosexual video.

The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli.

A possible explanation is found in various psychoanalytic theories, which have generally explained homophobia as a threat to an individual's own homosexual impulses causing repression, denial, or reaction formation (or all three; West, 1977). Generally, these varied explanations conceive of homophobia as one type of latent homosexuality where persons either are unaware of or deny their homosexual urges.[1]

Another explanation of these data is found in Barlow, Sakheim, and Beck's (1983) theory of the role of anxiety and attention in sexual responding. It is possible that viewing homosexual stimuli causes negative emotions such as anxiety in homophobic men but not in nonhomophobic men. Because anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection, this theory would predict increases in erection in homophobic men.[1]

Reparative therapy advocates[who?] disagree that the homophobic males were stimulated by genuine latent homosexuality, claiming that the stimulation arose from negative emotions such as anxiety"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_homosexuality

 

If you recognise nothing in the above and you still stand by your bigotry, you could always move to Uganda, I'm sure you and the rest of your cohorts on here will be as happy as two men making love (would you like a bucket?). Who knows you may even make a few bob on the circuit.

 

---------- Post added 03-09-2013 at 02:16 ----------

 

 

I took great pride in the institute of marrage but whats a marrage mean anymore ?

 

It means exactly the same as it meant when you took great pride. Men and women have not been removed from the criteria. Go find yourself a fella..let it loose.

[RootsBooster]

I'm more than happy with my opinions I am anti gay or homophobic or whatever you want to label me,I have nothing to hide,why can homos say what they want protest in the streets even try and get the church to change its marage laws yet a normal hetrosexual man like me cant say anything without someone reporting you to the authorities.

 

A normal heterosexual man can say plenty of things without being reported.

Can you give an example of;

 

1) Something a gay can get away with saying that a straight can't?

 

2) Homosexuals protesting in the streets to get the Church to change their laws?

[Halibut]

 

I took great pride in the institute of marrage but whats a marrage mean anymore ?

 

The same as it ever did. I got married last year. It's great.

Anyone claiming it's somehow reduced by being opened up to gay people is just weird.

[hard2miss]

The same as it ever did. I got married last year. It's great.

Anyone claiming it's somehow reduced by being opened up to gay people is just weird.

 

Well theres a lot of wierd people in the world then.

 

It wasn't that long ago that being homosexual was wierd, how times have changed eh, maybe theres hope for us yet ?

 

Marrage now is not the same thing and you don't have to be wierd to work that one out. I never gave homosexuality a second thought until they demanded they desolve marrage to prove a point, churches should advertise that what they offer is real marrage and maintain the ban on these fake hijacked marrages that are now offered.

[SnailyBoy]

Well theres a lot of wierd people in the world then.

 

It wasn't that long ago that being homosexual was wierd, how times have changed eh, maybe theres hope for us yet ?

 

Marrage now is not the same thing and you don't have to be wierd to work that one out. I never gave homosexuality a second thought until they demanded they desolve marrage to prove a point, churches should advertise that what they offer is real marrage and maintain the ban on these fake hijacked marrages that are now offered.

 

I didn't get married in a church, but I'm just as married as anyone who did.

 

Can I suggest you rid yourself of intolerance, I'm sure you'll feel loads better for it.

[Mister M]

Its not love making its filth..its nothing to do with me nor would I want it to do with me, loving making is when a man and a women who love each other make love, not two homos sodomizing each other... call that love making I think you are sick if you think that is acceptable behaviour.

 

Those who shout the loudest have the most to hide

[JFKvsNixon]

Depends on how serious and what you thought marrage to be I suppose, to me it feels watered down.

 

I took great pride in the institute of marrage but whats a marrage mean anymore ?

 

So your marriage feels less important because two people of the same sex love each other and also want to get married. Why?

[El Cid]

I just googled "Consummation of marriage", some dictionaries say it is "To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony and some say the act of living together.

I always thought it was the sex part, if so, not all marriages are equal. But I am prepared to move with the times grudgingly.

 

---------- Post added 03-09-2013 at 10:37 ----------

 

So your marriage feels less important because two people of the same sex love each other and also want to get married. Why?

 

Because you dont need to have sex in order to be married ??

[foxforcefive]

Depends on how serious and what you thought marrage to be I suppose, to me it feels watered down.

 

I took great pride in the institute of marrage but whats a marrage mean anymore ?

 

Marriage was watered down long before Gay marriage even began to raise temperatures. People get married for a green card, because they have children, for financial security etc etc, then there's divorce, are you so vocal about these issues.

 

I think homophobic behaviour is very shady grey, I have gay friends who call themselves all the usual deemed homophobic names, their straight pals call it them too or make a joke about their sexuality, on another hand if you said the same to someone with a difference sense of humour they may take it as you being homophobic. (I say that as I know someone who was demoted as a result of having a pink shirt gag with a gay man he worked with).