Where do we draw the line with the term homophobia ?

We're devastated. Really blows a hole in the gay agenda.

Hell but I needed a good laugh about now. Thanks for providing it. I'm even tempted to let my "agenda" go so far as to write those oh-so-tedious letters "lol". So I think I will: lol!

He's not being serious.

No, you may not. Not for the reason you think anyway.

But I don't; the terms have different definitions so obviously aren't synonyms. In fat, can you even get synonyms for sentences? I'm fairly sure, but not certain, that it only applies to individual words with the same meaning.

That's because it's all you allow yourself to see. Does it occur to you that a people so long-oppressed would, initially, be a trifle overly-zealous in the celebration of FINALLY getting their rights to one degree or another? This isn't quantum physics. BUT GOD FORBID IT BE ABOUT SEX. I fear we're still a dreadfully Puritanical/Victorian country when it comes to the real honest-to-goodness enjoyment of our sexuality. Where we show random outrageous violence with complete abandon on television with NO filter, just try and show a female breast or the male buttocks and you're somehow perverse. Of the two, I'll take sex any day of the week. In truth we're a country of huge contradictions. Further, for you to think that anal penetration is solely the turf of homosexual men is laughable. Do you have any idea how many heterosexual man REQUIRE it of their wives and girlfriends? If you don't. You don't get around much.

May I ask, at least with me, you stay on topic? It's appreciated. And, oh by the way, I'm aghast at your infinite knowledge of English grammar protocol...

Yes i have heard and read that argument before....Im not really sure how or if it works though.

I mean here in Manchester homosexuality is very much in my face but im not protesting and screaming look at me, im str8 and i want str8 rights blah blah blah.. What rights are homosexuals denied now? Havent they more or less got everything they wanted or will there always be something else?

I mean here in Manchester homosexuality is very much in my face but im not protesting and screaming look at me, im str8 and i want str8 rights blah blah blah.. What rights are homosexuals denied now? Havent they more or less got everything they wanted or will there always be something else?

Grow up dude, heterosexuals don't have a long history of persecution and prejudice at the hands of gay people, so you don't really need to assert your heterosexuality. Legal rights are important but they don't count for everything; there have long been laws against assault but men beating their wives and girlfriends is a still routine enough crime to justify campaigns.

Because it's not like gay people can only get married in 16 countries. And they're obviously not still discriminated against. We need to be protesting heterosexual rights, damn it!

But no one in the UK can do anything about discrimination against homosexuals for example in Mauritania where you will be liable to death by stoning.

I dont think you should be stoned. (assuming your gay).

So why not hold pride events in Mauritania instead of Manchester? The battle is (largely) won here.

But we have had pride events for as long as i can remember now. Isnt all the celebration done with?

I have no issues with homosexuals..please get along with it and i hope you are all happy. Lord knows life is short. I have also had/read/heard the hetero anal sex argument thrown at me. Believe me,your pushing at an open door. I am very well aware that a minority of women take pleasure from it,some consent knowing it pleases their partner and the majority wont entertain it.

I find it abhorrent that a woman should feel compelled to submit to anal penetration by any man if it is against her desires and wishes.

Do you think such men could be in the closet?

Not an equivalent point of comparison.

Personally Im not a supporter of gay marriage in fact i am totally against it.

Also the thought of two men engaging in sexual acts makes me feel sick to my stomach

however i can be respectful to gay people if i see them .

If i saw one getting beaten to the point of near death,if i knew they could die i would try jump in and stop it ,not before obviously because i rarely like getting involved in other peoples dramas unless i like them or know them on a level that i can say boom they are my fam .

I also try not to say bad things about them as well.

Does not supporting gay marriage and being repulsed by the act make me a homophobe ?

... where do we draw the line

But no one in the UK can do anything about discrimination against homosexuals for example in Mauritania where you will be liable to death by stoning.

I dont think you should be stoned. (assuming your gay).

So why not hold pride events in Mauritania instead of Manchester? The battle is (largely) won here.

If I might interject, there is quite a difference between being against gay people, and being actively against them. You are completely entitled to your opinion on the matter, but if you're trying to restrict the rights of gay people or discriminate against them based on said opinion, then you're not really in a position to complain about people objecting to that.

You're against equal rights for people based on their sexual orientation? You're homophobic.



You feel sick when two consenting adults have sex purely because of their sexual orientation? Homophobic.



You 'can' be respectful, rather than, you 'are' respectful? If it has to take some conscious effort, you're homophobic.



Not really sure what you're saying here, but if you would step in earlier for a couple you assumed were straight than for a couple you assumed were gay, that's homophobic.



If it has to take some conscious effort to not say bad things to people based on their sexual orientation, you're homophobic.



Yes.



At allowing equal opportunities for all; regardless of and without prejudice against sexual orientation, preference, sex or gender identity; and treating every individual in the same manner without being blinded by who they like to be with and have sex with.

what about people discriminating against us because of our opinions? if someone hates me and avoids me because of my beliefs how is that any diiferent from me hating and avoiding gays (which i dont).
ps. i dont 'choose' to believe these things, its part of my whole world view and upbringing. literally to me saying 'theres nothing wrong with being gay etc' would be a betrayel to my family and upbringing, to who i am.
maybe that isnt the case with other 'homophobes' but its is with pretty much everyone from for example a muslim background.
and let me assure you if you dont lie when people ask what you think about gay people you WILL be attacked when they ask you your opinion. personally, I dont give a damn about not being liked but im just pointing some hypocrisy in modern society.

I think people should tolerate gay people, but that doesn't mean you have to be going around saying there's nothing wrong with being gay.