A gay man tries to find out why anti gay rights campaigners hate him so much. Some of the quote’s scare the shit out of me. I struggle to know how to frame my feelings on homophobes. If their fact’s were wrong, if they had somehow confused themselves and got lost in their hatred I might understand; those are problems that can be addressed. I have yet to find an approach that works when sound reason and considered opinion is not the basis of their argument.
It is easy to conclude that this is nothing more than stupid people supporting stupid ideologies, but I think that is too simplistic and instead illustrates how people just don’t think in the same manner I do. It’s clear they have a emotional responses to me, my feeling is that they simply cannot translate into a clear and logical response, so they don’t bother. It’s more emotionally satisfying not to re-examine your premises, and easier to ignore the difference between logic and your emotional response to continue comfortable thoughts.
That still doesn’t sit well with me, but until I can think about it some more, that’s what I’m going with.
In fact, I have - I am sorry to say - I have a sister who is involved in that lifestyle,” she says. “But deep down in her heart, she knows it is wrong.”
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