Don't you just hate heterosexuals sometimes?

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The ignorant ones that is. Who deny that transgenderism is real, and deny that females have feelings for females, and males have feelings for males.

I don't understand what they can't accept about that? It's just pure ignorance! I for one, blame religion. If there was no religion, there would be none of this. People are only homophobic because of the so called stories in the Christianity bible, and then people have been brain fed this information.

Can you honestly blame so many LGBT's for being Atheist? Fair play if you are still religious and LGBT, but I don't see the point.

I am not hating on religion by the way. I just f*cking hate some religious people for the way they go about things when it comes to LGBT politics.

I often think that people misinterpret the bible, but I don't think this is the place to go in to it. I find it impossible to see the thought process behind such people who hold those beliefs though. Do they honestly believe they should be allowed to dictate and limit the feelings of other people? Bah.

It's not heterosexuals, it's people. People are stupid, that's all there is to it.

Take a leaf out of dirty harry's book. hate everyone.

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here is one of my fave quotes about hate:

"It's not only necessary to know how to go about loving your enemies, but also to go down into the question of why we should love our enemies. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil."

delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Try loving the people that hate you...they dont know how to handle that.

Jojo

I think that it is nonsense to blame religion as the cause of heterosexism. Religion perpetuates it, to be sure, but there are plenty of places where homophobia and heterosexism have had free rein despite official or widespread atheism. Just because homophobia and evangelism walk hand in hand in the United States does not mean that this is the norm the world over.

I believe I understand where you're coming from MightMorphin, I and appreciate everyone else's comments.

I've grown to love and hate people on their own terms. People can be great or awful in their own special and unique way(s). To riff off of the very apt (and beautiful) MLK quote provided by jojobean: it's about the content of their character, not the color of their skin (or their sexual orientation, gender-identification, faith or lack thereof, or any other bullsh_t, surface-level difference that our xenophobic asses just love to focus on and whose importance we love to over-inflate).

It's not religion, per se. It's fundamentalism. And our xenophobic, tribal impulses. And a false belief that the random assortment of often-times conflicting data swirling around in our cerebral cortex is somehow sufficient to form a rigid belief structure that explains away anything and everything. We do like our 'us and them,' 'black and white' binary thinking. We're lazy that way.

Alright: now that I've offered my 'considered opinion,' my actual, knee-jerk reaction is more long the lines of Mr. Bill Hicks, who immortally stated that: People suck, and that's my contention. I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Give me a f___ing Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes. The proof, the fact, the factorum. I'll show my work, case closed. I'm tired of this back-slapping "Aren't humanity neat?" bull___t. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.

See? How in the hell can I reconcile my appreciation for MLK's honorable and empathetic sentiments with Mr. Hick's all-pervading pessimism? I dunno, I just can. We're no stranger to hypocrisy. And cognitive dissonance is easily fended off my the ego of most, myself included.

I suppose it comes down to this: It's really satisfying to blame some small or otherwise marginalized group you've no appreciation or understanding of for all of one's problem.

Easy, too.

And we LOOOOOVE easy.

Regards to all.

The bible doesn't even say anything about gay women. Also, the thing in the bible which says "men, shouldn't sleep with other men", is thought to be a mistranslation of "older men, shouldn't sleep with younger men".

Humans are flawed, imperfect creatures.

Forgive them for being flawed and imperfect, and then forgive yourself for being flawed and imperfect.

Hatred towards the non-heteronormative members of society is just one more manifestation of people rejecting anyone who isn't in their "tribe." If it isn't homosexuality and transsexualism, then it will be some other arbitrary trait that will define "us verses them."

As for hetero-supremacy, I've never seen a homo/transphobic viewpoint that wasn't highly emotional and rooted in superstition. I've never come across a SECULAR argument against gay marriage that didn't crumble under scrutiny. This indicates that this kind of crap is a ephemeral cultural vagary that will go *poof* once the Old Guard dies off.

NO H8

remember?