There are many straight people in this country who suffer from a closeted (or even open) fear that homosexuality is contagious, that merely befriending a gay or lesbian person or being near one will cause a straight individual to sprout a same-sex attraction.
But a large study recently published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior may help dispel that fear. Analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a long term-study conducted from 1994 to 2002 of a nationally representative sample of 90,118 students in Grades 7-12, researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. found that same-sex attraction does not spread in adolescent peer groups.
Of course this is the underlying fear of those who are terrified of gay teachers in the classroom, can't stand the idea of gay people getting married, and who believe that the acceptance of homosexuality as relatively normal will usher in some sort of national Sodom and Gomorrah.
Now most of us did not need to read this study to recognize that those fears were unfounded, but that is because WE tend to think logically. And we are likely straight, or out of the closet gays.
As we have noted before homophobic people often have latent homosexual urges which they constantly have to struggle with to keep suppressed and unnoticed by their peers.
They are so aggressively against the idea of homosexuality gaining a sense of normalcy because that would make it just that much harder to suppress their own. And the idea that homosexuality is contagious seems reasonable to them because the more they are exposed to "teh gay" the more their own "sinful" thoughts bubble to the surface.
However, as this study proves, the facts are that if you are gay, then you are gay regardless of how hard you try to suppress it, and if you are straight, then your love of showtunes is simply bad taste in music.
That is why the so-called "gay agenda" has never been about making other people gay, it has always been about allowing those who ARE gay to learn to love themselves and realize that they do not have to hide who they are anymore.
I have gay friends, and not once has one of them suggested I become gay. Unlike the fundies, who recruit CHILDREN into their misguided Biblical club, or Catholic priests, who use their position to harm children, gay people just want to live thier lives. But then, women just want freedom to work for fair pay, have or not have children, and be treated as equals. Now, GOP, why are you so afraid of anyone not just like you?
ReplyDeleteHow would you suggest someone become gay?
DeleteI understand we all can learn new things in life but really, I think most of us know which team we will be on for life.
Because people not like them cannot be controlled.
DeleteHey! I resemble that remark about show-tune lovers!
ReplyDelete- Yellowgirl
Right on, sister!
DeleteEven Miss Aretha Franklin stoops to differ with Gryphen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tUqQVHd-uA
"and if you are straight, then your love of showtunes is simply bad taste in music."
ReplyDeleteOn the floor SNORTING!
Uh oh, maw!
ReplyDeleteWassa matter?
I think I got " the gay"!
*maw shreaks and does a slow wall slide...
It's the though of a gay man ass to mouthing his partner and then stroking it for him. That shit is unsanitary and gross. Then they go around touching the door knobs spreading that sick shit. If I am homophobic it's because I understand the microb world because not all that shit can be washed off.
ReplyDeleteYes because nothing about heterosexual sex could be considered unhygienic right?
DeleteNice try.
Anonymous9:35 AM
DeleteEwwww....I mean seriously....Ewwwww! Is this what YOU think about troll?
LOL!!!
I believe someone has their head where the sun doesn't shine.
DeleteHeterosexuals are just as "unsanitary" as gays - and in many cases, even more so. In fact, some practices by some heterosexuals are even more unsanitary, not to mention downright unsafe.
Sex is NOT meant to be SANITARY! It is for reproduction and/or FUN! Do you believe that cavemen and women would shower and wash their hands before and after sex? Hell, they probably didn't even KNOW about clean!
And, yes, there are door knobs in the "best" heterosexual homes as well!
Go climb back in your hole until you wake up and LEARN.
It doesn't matter what kind of poll you take or the facts you show them or anything else you face them with. If it is contrary to what their religion teaches them (and, of course, their lying, ignorant "preachers") they will refuse to believe it.
ReplyDeleteVery rarely one can find those who can actually LEARN themselves away from their religious brainwashing. And when you do, it isn't necessary to try to change their minds. They will come around on their own - quite quickly, too!
Of course, one good thing is coming from all this anti-gay propaganda being spewed from the (mostly southern baptist) pulpit: The young are leaving their religions behind because they don't like the hate. And that's a good thing.
But it certainly would be so much nicer if the hate wasn't there to bein with, wouldn't it?
Um, that last line should read "....to beGin with.,..."
DeleteI think most homosexuals are born that way
ReplyDeletebut I also think it might be possible for some people to get sucked into it.
Damn, Randall! That's hard to swallow! (SNARK!)
DeleteWhat do you have against showtunes?
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