wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : The problem for them is their belief is NOT rational. It is a religious supersbreastion. They believe that gays are bad because mommy told them. It is emotionally deep seated. When challenged to defend it rationally, they CAN'T. In a panic, they toss out gibberish. Their reason is "I hate you. My Mom taught me to hate you. I want to make like as miserable as I can for you because you are "bad"." I used to be in that same boat. I was extremely anti gay. There were two things that changed me: 1. meeting a wide variety of gays and discovering the stereotypes were lies and all the stories about them my Mom had taught be were total BS. I talked about this my "blurb" A Guide For The Naive Homoloveual I wrote back in 1968 plus 1. Part of it is posted at 2. being gay myself. It was extremely distressing hating myself , and trying to stop myself from even thinking about love. I had no one to talk to about this. I figured if I ever opened up, people would ostracise me worse than a serial liquidateer. -- "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." ~ W. Edwards Deming
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