Homophobia

Homophobia

Ever since I can remember homosexuals have been discriminated by the majority of people in society. There have been numerous amounts of proof that homosexuals have been isolated from those whom consider themselves “normal”. I was looking for a quote on homosexuals when I encountered one from a woman who’s also a mother she said, “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.” (Anita Bryant). It took me a while to actually understand what she meant, but I realized that it really depends on the reader on how they see it. One way it can be interpreted in a positive way is that, it’s true, homosexuals can’t biologically make children, so their only option (if they want kids) is to adopt. The negative way it can be read is that since homosexuals aim for the same sex, then there’s no chance of reproducing children. But what if the woman meant to say, “Oh, well homosexuals are looking for people (my kids) to target. I don’t believe in gay marriage nor do I believe that two men or two women should have sex.” This shows that maybe she meant to say that homosexuals are aiming towards their children (and not children as kids I mean children mainly in their teen-age). In my opinion the first idea made more sense rather than the second idea, but I feel as if the quote has a deeper message to it than just that.

            When I read the quote I still wasn’t sure if I was going towards the negative side or the positive side, but it made me realize that homophobia is still out there. It’s probably hard to imagine but homophobia is all around us. That’s why some teens who are homosexuals decide not to tell anyone because they’re scared of the outcome on how people are going to react to them. I mean why wouldn’t they be scared? They hear offensive comments nearly every single day, for example when someone asks someone a question and they respond “no I’m straight” instead of saying “no I’m fine” or “no thanks”. Also when playing video games, let’s say Call of Duty for example, when someone gets shot and killed they respond with such a violent verbal response, they usually say “You faggot!” or “You fag!”. I don’t think it’s right that people can be so inconsiderate like that. Do they not realize what they say? Are they so insecure they have to target on the “weaker” people? But the one comment that gets my adrenaline going is when someone responds to a questions or statement saying “that’s gay”. REALLY?! If you check in the internet the definition of gay is “Having or showing a merry; lively mood” not, “It’s a word in which it is able to be used as an offensive term towards homosexuals”.

            Homophobia and homosexuals like I said, is all around us. Politically with Fred Karger who’s known as the first homosexual who tried to run as president, Sociably with all those insecure no lives, and Religiously with all those skeptics who say that being a homosexual is a sin. Personally, those hateful comments towards gay people sometimes get to me, but I don’t let it bother nor do I let it get to a point in which I start to hate on myself for being who I am or thinking the way I do. I would like to end off with a another quote that shows that homophobia occurs by those who decide to show it towards other people and that it’s time for the gay community to stand up and fight for the respect that we desperately deserve, the quote said “in reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of protestant have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It’s time we did the same for homophobia.” (William Sloane Coffin)