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Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by lulu69: 4:42pm On Feb 02, 2015
Ten months ago, I was a hundred per cent homophobic. Today, I'm less bias. You want to know what happened? I'll tell you.

I had a gay post last year on this page where I posited that having not taken part in birthing a child, gay people had no right to raise children. Academically, I still hold that position but when the premise is changed (which is what Bayero did) and viewed from the angle of the many homeless kids who are getting care and love from these people or the many abusive heterosexual homes who mess these kids up much more than is being perceived by being raised in a gay home, then we have a whole new discussion on our hands.

As the debate raged on and people made their different submissions and comments (championed by Bayero ofcourse), I started to ask myself "is homophobia nature or nurture?" This thought made me explore the matter.

What is homophpbia?

According to Wikipedia, Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being LGBT. It can be expressed as antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, or hatred, may be based on irrational fear, and is sometimes related to religious beliefs.

Merriam-Webster says "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals"

It is interesting and pertinent to note that homosexuality was once viewed as a mental condition. In my part of the world, it is still viewed as such and more often as a spiritual battle lost by gay people. To us, it is the devil - SIMPLE.

But should this blanket definition suffice? Can this bias stand critical scrutiny? Are we born with gay bias or did we learn to hate them?
In my opinion, which is informed by my limited knowledge of human anatomy, I find that the vagina expands and gets wet in anticipation for the entrance of the penis. I am not sure if the anus is designed to do that as well. But that's how far I've come with logically defending my bias. However, since homosexuality is much more than sex, I realised my argument was weak. So I asked myself these questions:

Am I homophobic by nature or is it my society that shaped my bias?

If I lived in a more gay tolerant society, will my position change overtime?

If my boss was gay, will I quit?

If I had gay team mates, will I quit the team?

If a gay man saved my life, will I be more tolerant?

If I had a gay offspring or sibling, what would I do?

In pondering these, I found that the only reason I still hold any shred of homophobia is because I lack the opportunity to interact with gay people. Being a strong advocate of judging people by contents of their character, I increasingly see the error in hating someone for who they choose to sleep with. I have realised that in this honest self evaluation and assessment, I am better equipped mentally to deal with them when I find myself in a gay tolerant community. I know I'd definitely cringe at my first sight of gay PDA, but I have come to understand that they are human first.

How will you respond to these questions?

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 4:52pm On Feb 02, 2015
Interesting question and a very nice write up.

I grew up in a very homophobic environment and family but even as a child did not understand why people have a problem with homo*sexuality.
It's just me. Whenever my family members would look down at anything that is foreign or strange to them, I would not understand it and think differently.

Maybe it is part of the human nature to fear or have an aversion to anything that is unknown. It is possibly a protection mechanism that helped the human race to survive over centuries and which has not been replaced during the evolution process even though it would help the human race a lot more if TODAY they would rather depend on reason than instincts and sentiments.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 5:30pm On Feb 02, 2015
They say people are threatened by what they don't know.

A homophobic nairaland said he prays the adopted son of a gay couple will grow up to hate and despise his parents.I questioned why he would pray such and explained something.

CyrusXandria:
Sorry,but it don't work like that,first off,God loves the parents,moreso,he loves the child more for he is blameless and innocent from all sins in this world.

If at all he grows up,his gratitude will always be with his two lovely dads for bringing him so far.Love is a strong thing,if the foundation is built with love,the family pillars surely will last.You get it now.

One thing I've come to realise is homophobia is never natural,it is shaped and developed.If you live in a free-thinking tolerant society,you'll love and welcome everyone alike.

Due to the fact that society like ours has succeeded in oppressing gays and making it seem their existence is so rare,people only have exposure to a few things which they can't define cause their understanding isn't open to it.In a tolerant society,they'll be understanding.

Therefore,the foundation of our society is not built to welcome anyone with open hands,we've designed our society to ostracize or remove those with alien nature from our surrounding.

You're not born homophobic cause you don't understand a homosexual who can't explain why he likes dudes,you're homophobic because you choose to understand,align your thoughts to a particular school of reasoning.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 5:30pm On Feb 02, 2015
The whole notion of "homosexual" and it’s derivatives – i.e. homophobia - are deceptive ideological constructs and do not bear real scrutiny. Anyone that did more than meekly accept the false premises used to pivot such arguments would immediately see that.

Human beings are sexed male and female. Males and females are sexually complimentary to and with each other – evidenced by the procreative aspects of their physical union.

Opposite sex attraction is rightly considered normal – whilst same sex attraction is simply abnormal. Using the counter-distinct terms heterosexual and homosexual merely serves to legitimise an inherent disorder.

So called hets and homos are in no way functionally different from one another. So all we need and should have is a notion of human rights. There is no need – other than ideologically – for any notion of gay rights.

Having said that, I fully expect and actively support – be the claim nature or nurture – those who identify as “homosexual” having full human rights, just like everyone else. Likewise, I believe those that find homosexuals to be morally repugnant to have every right to their beliefs.

I do not support a separate set of rights simply due to identification as homosexual. Neither do I see why issues discussed with “homosexuals” should always be viewed from a point of their sexual practice.

The homosexual lifestyle as found in humans is not found anywhere in nature. Even the behaviours forcibly described as homosexual rarely stand close examination. Animals are driven by instinct. Infanticide is rife in nature - so what?

Marriage for example is distinctive in being a male/female union – and for a number of obvious reasons. I do not agree to the re-definition of marriage to affirm homosexual behavour. Call that what you please.


TV

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 6:23pm On Feb 02, 2015
homos are sub-humans. Nothing is gonna change that

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by jmoore(m): 6:44pm On Feb 02, 2015
Homosexuality is insanity.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 6:45pm On Feb 02, 2015
lofty900:
homos are sub-humans. Nothing is gonna change that

Please define sub-human in the context of homosexuals. you seem to understand the issues deeply

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 7:00pm On Feb 02, 2015
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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 10:24pm On Feb 02, 2015
Used to be homophobic but now nah some gay guys are nice people. Besides I think gay people have the right to be equally miserable as we straight people be it marriage, dating and having a family.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by mutter(f): 11:00pm On Feb 02, 2015
I think it is wrong to describe people by their sexual tendencies. That is a private thing and should be kept private.

However I fear that I live in a world where it is okay to be gay and evil to speak againt it.

If one man has a right to be gay, the other man has a right to be against it.

Respet both ways

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 11:06pm On Feb 02, 2015
mutter:
I think it is wrong to describe people by their sexual tendencies. That is a private thing and should be kept private.

However I fear that I live in a world where it is okay to be gay and evil to speak againt it.

If one man has a right to be gay, the other man has a right to be against it.

Respet both ways

Ok, if one man has the right to be hete*rose*xual then another has the right to be against it, according to your logic. I love your logic sometimes.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by mutter(f): 11:13pm On Feb 02, 2015
carefreewannabe:


Ok, if one man has the right to be hete*rose*xual then another has the right to be against it, according to your logic. I love your logic sometimes.

Yes that is the way I see it and very often people say I know this gay couple and they are so nice. Well I visited a couple once and I almost threw up! Simply disgusting the kind of gadgets and devices they had lying around.
Also life style related health issues.
And yet they were utmost polite and very friendly. A great couple actually.
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 11:15pm On Feb 02, 2015
mutter:


Yes that is the way I see it and very often people say I know this gay couple and they are so nice. Well I visited a couple once and I almost threw up! Simply disgusting the kind of gadgets and devices they had lying around.
Also life style related health issues.
And yet they were utmost polite and very friendly. A great couple actually.

I have seen many disgusting people and places in my life. I didn't know it was a matter of hetero- or homose*xuality.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 11:39pm On Feb 02, 2015
carefreewannabe:


I have seen many disgusting people and places in my life. I didn't know it was a matter of hetero- or homose*xuality.
If it's not a matter of "hetero" or "homo", why do homos demand rights based on their homosexuality?


TV
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by cococandy(f): 2:52am On Feb 03, 2015
It is nurture. Pure n simple

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 6:21am On Feb 03, 2015
TV01:

If it's not a matter of "hetero" or "homo", why do homos demand rights based on their homosexuality?


TV

Despite!
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 6:54am On Feb 03, 2015
mutter:
I think it is wrong to describe people by their sexual tendencies. That is a private thing and should be kept private.

However I fear that I live in a world where it is okay to be gay and evil to speak againt it.

If one man has a right to be gay, the other man has a right to be against it.

Respet both ways

So if I were a sexist misogynistic atheist you'd respect my right even if I had views that degrade women and religion. Cuz it sounds too unrealistic.
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by dinachi(m): 7:23am On Feb 03, 2015
A sick man wakes up one day and decides to start licking another mans shit hole and digging same with his dick. One word. INSANITY!

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by mutter(f): 10:01am On Feb 03, 2015
[quote author=pcguru1 post=30378004][/quote]

I will respect your right to believe whatever you want to believe.

When you see a mad man unclad on the road eating from the bin do you mean that man has lost his right to my respect?

Certainly not he gets my respect as a human, does not mean the trash has turned to steak and wine.
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 10:40am On Feb 03, 2015
mutter:


I will respect your right to believe whatever you want to believe.

When you see a mad man unclad on the road eating from the bin do you mean that man has lost his right to my respect?

Certainly not he gets my respect as a human, does not mean the trash has tuned to steak and wine.

I get what you mean, I just believe the right to expression should be limited yes I know I sound like a tyrant but I think too much freedom allows hate speech and opinions. That's just me but I respect that you respect my view. Also Am no way misogynistic or atheist totally the opposite
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 10:48am On Feb 03, 2015
carefreewannabe:
Despite!
Exactly, no real answer.

Why do a set of people demand a whole set of rights exclusive to them based purely on their sexual preference?

In as much as our sexual practice are a part of the human experience, what rational person views the whole of life experience through that practice?

Why do they demand the social endorsement and legal codification and cultural celebration of that preference?

Why is something that through history and across civilisation been considered aberrant at best, all of a sudden become something that must be embedded into the social fabric?


TV
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by mutter(f): 10:49am On Feb 03, 2015
pcguru1:

I get what you mean, I just believe the right to expression should be limited yes I know I sound like a tyrant but I think too much freedom allows hate speech and opinions. That's just me but I respect that you respect my view. Also Am no way misogynistic or atheist totally the opposite

Certainly freedom of speech should be limited because your rights end where mine start and most battles start with words.

So much havoc is being caused in the world today because people mean that they are exercising their fundamental human rights, yet through this they are stepping on the rights of others. Example the french cartoons recently.
But as usual might is always right.
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 11:26am On Feb 03, 2015
TV01:

Exactly, no real answer.

It is a real answer. Very straight and simple.

Why do a set of people demand a whole set of rights exclusive to them based purely on their sexual preference?

Which rights do homo*sexuals demand that are exclusive to them?

In as much as our sexual practice are a part of the human experience, what rational person views the whole of life experience through that practice?

Homophobic people.

Why do they demand the social endorsement and legal codification and cultural celebration of that preference?

They want to enjoy the same acceptance that you and I do despite their se*xual preference which is, as you rightly put it, part of their human experience and not their entire existence.

Why is something that through history and across civilisation been considered aberrant at best, all of a sudden become something that must be embedded into the social fabric?


TV

Why NOT?

Are you sure that homo*sexuality has been considered aberrant all through history? Are you 100% sure?

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 12:13pm On Feb 03, 2015
carefreewannabe:
It is a real answer. Very straight and simple.
No utterly simplistic - what you are fond of accusing others of grin!

carefreewannabe:

Which rights do homo*sexuals demand that are exclusive to them?
Not just exclusive to them, but also forced upon others;
- Redefinition of marriage
- Right to teach children that homosexual pracice is normal & healthy
- Right to procure children
- Right to force others to endorse and participate in their perversion

carefreewannabe:

Homophobic people.
Are basically people who do not unquestioningly accede to the demands of homosexuals - Proudly cool!

carefreewannabe:

They want to enjoy the same acceptance that you and I do despite their se*xual preference which is, as you rightly put it, part of their human experience and not their entire existence.
They are accepted like everyone else - what they want is for us to re-configure society and culture around their sexual preference. No!

carefreewannabe:

Why NOT?
Because it's unnatural and unhealthy - but their choice - not something to be forced onto wider society

carefreewannabe:
Are you sure that homo*sexuality has been considered aberrant all through history? Are you 100% sure?
Yes! It is abberant, by it's very nature. It's an abnormal practice. Was there ever a time it was considered 100% normal everywhere?

Even the few cultures that allowed it, knew to keep it peripheral at best, and did not confuse or conflate it with marriage. Most cultures rightly considered it morally repugnant. It adds no value and is deleterious.

Was everyone up until 20 years ago a bigot/homophobe. How recently did Obama "evolve" on the issue? Was he a bigot before his evolution? And if there are some who haven't or won't evolve to accepting/celebrating it, why are they persecuted.


TV

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 1:53pm On Feb 03, 2015
TV01:

No utterly simplistic - what you are fond of accusing others of grin!

There is a difference between simple and simplistic and also between an accusation and an observation. grin


Not just exclusive to them, but also forced upon others;
- Redefinition of marriage

Wrong. It is not a right that is exclusive to gay people. You have the right too.

And besides there are monogamous, polygamous, polyandrous, endogamous, arranged, spirit, group marriages ....... I could go on and on.


- Right to teach children that homosexual pracice is normal & healthy

How is this right exclusive to homo*sexuals?


- Right to procure children

How is this right exclusive to homo*sexuals?

- Right to force others to endorse and participate in their perversion

Homophobia at its peak. grin

Show me one homosexual that demands the right to force others to participate in any homosexual practice. grin

I have never been forced to participate in any sexual act that involved homo*sexuals, have you?


Are basically people who do not unquestioningly accede to the demands of homosexuals - Proudly cool!

You asked me "In as much as our sexual practice are a part of the human experience, what rational person views the whole of life experience through that practice?" and I wrote homophobic people and then you wrote the line above. Does it makes sense? undecided Anyway.


They are accepted like everyone else - what they want is for us to re-configure society and culture around their sexual preference. No!

It is a lie to say that they are accepted like everyone else, a big lie, and you know it.

Now explain how they want to "re-configure" culture and society.

Because it's unnatural and unhealthy - but their choice - not something to be forced onto wider society

How is it unnatural?


Yes! It is abberant, by it's very nature. It's an abnormal practice. Was there ever a time it was considered 100% normal everywhere?

Yes, in some parts of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, possibly also ancient Egypt, and I am sure even more cultures that I am not aware of now.

Even the few cultures that allowed it, knew to keep it peripheral at best, and did not confuse or conflate it with marriage. Most cultures rightly considered it morally repugnant. It adds no value and is deleterious.

OOOOOoooo, so now a few cultures allowed it? Didn't you say the following before?

Why is something that through history and across civilisation been considered aberrant at best, all of a sudden become something that must be embedded into the social fabric?

Before I teach you again, in some cultures gay marriages were allowed long before Christ was born. Do your research. wink

Have you got a problem with homo*sexuality or with gay marriages or both?


Was everyone up until 20 years ago a bigot/homophobe. How recently did Obama "evolve" on the issue? Was he a bigot before his evolution? And if there are some who haven't or won't evolve to accepting/celebrating it, why are they persecuted.


TV

How are you persecuted for sharing your views?

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 2:57pm On Feb 03, 2015
carefreewannabe:

There is a difference between simple and simplistic and also between an accusation and an observation. grin
Please try and figure these differences out - holla if you require assistance grin!

carefreewannabe:

Wrong. It is not a right that is exclusive to gay people. You have the right too.
No one and no group has the right to redefine the societal artefact that is marriage.


carefreewannabe:
And besides there are monogamous, polygamous, polyandrous, endogamous, arranged, spirit, group marriages ....... I could go on and on.
And the marriage is always between a male and a female - or else it's simply not marriage as defined

carefreewannabe:
How is this right exclusive to homo*sexuals?
1. It's not true
2. No other paraphilia is being embedded in our culture

carefreewannabe:
How is this right exclusive to homo*sexuals?
Children have a right to their natural birth parents. Or in the event of loss, the rightg to be raised in as close an environment as possible. Homosexuals forcibly deny children this right - to satisfy their own vanity and desire for legitimacy. Are homosexual rights more important than childrens?

carefreewannabe:
Homophobia at its peak. grin
Show me one homosexual that demands the right to force others to participate in any homosexual practice. grin
It's not to engage in the acts, it's to participate in the celebration of the act. It's forced assent and participation. Tyranny

carefreewannabe:
I have never been forced to participate in any sexual act that involved homo*sexuals, have you?
As above

carefreewannabe:
You asked me "In as much as our sexual practice are a part of the human experience, what rational person views the whole of life experience through that practice?" and I wrote homophobic people and then you wrote the line above. Does it makes sense? undecided Anyway.
The point is it's homosexuals who insist that homosexuality colour all our social institutions - to normalis/legitimise it.

Marriage is not a heterosexual institution. It came about as a direct result of the outcome of the male/female union. That outcome has implications for society' flourishing. So we publically celebrate, endorse and support it.

No one asks if you are gay or straight or if you love your spouse. Gay people have the exact same right as everyone else to marry a member of the opposite sex for that reason. Marriage was not an attempt to discriminate against gays or due to animus against them.

They don't want that right, or an equivalent right which captures their unions. They wan tto re-define the rights of others - and children - to feel good about themselves.

carefreewannabe:
It is a lie to say that they are accepted like everyone else, a big lie, and you know it.
It's not acceptance they are seeking, it's endorsement and celebration - by force!

carefreewannabe:
Now explain how they want to "re-configure" culture and society.
I've explained above

carefreewannabe:
How is it unnatural?
The biological and psychological disorder that it is can be researched quite easily. The health implications and pathologies of the practice are well documented.

carefreewannabe:
Yes, in some parts of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, possibly also ancient Egypt, and I am sure even more cultures that I am not aware of now.
In ancient Greece, it was accepted as a phase men went through (funnily enough it was old men and a young mentor - pederasty) marriage was still expected. It was in no way elvated or formalised or considered anything like marriage. Why should it be?

carefreewannabe:
OOOOOoooo, so now a few cultures allowed it? Didn't you say the following before?
Whether it was permitted and how it was considered are two different things - as I explained re Greece above.

carefreewannabe:
Before I teach you again, in some cultures gay marriages were allowed long before Christ was born. Do your research. wink
Nope. The practice may have been overlooked or allowed. It may even have been ritualised to a degree, but it was never considered as marriage.

carefreewannabe:
Have you got a problem with homo*sexuality or with gay marriages or both?
Homosexuality is morally repugnant and sinful. I do not foreclose on peoples choice to practice it or deny them rights as a result. Just like fornicators and adulterers.

Gay marriage is an oxymoron. The distinctive of marriage is of it being a formalised male/female union. It arose due to the procreative possibilty of same. Non-existent in a gay union.

carefreewannabe:
How are you persecuted for sharing your views?
One cannot preach a negative view of homosexuality or refuse to publicly declare approval for it without sanctions in the climate that prevails in the West. You can lose your job, business or livelihood and be socially ostracised.


TV
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 3:32pm On Feb 03, 2015
TV01:

Please try and figure these differences out - holla if you require assistance grin!

I never try, I do. wink
Trying is for those who consider possible failure.


No one and no group has the right to redefine the societal artefact that is marriage.

Says who?



And the marriage is always between a male and a female - or else it's simply not marriage as defined

1. It's not true
2. No other paraphilia is being embedded in our culture

Wrong, group marriage takes place between males and females.
And there were gay marriages in ancient times. Free education for all. cheesy


Children have a right to their natural birth parents. Or in the event of loss, the rightg to be raised in as close an environment as possible. Homosexuals forcibly deny children this right - to satisfy their own vanity and desire for legitimacy. Are homosexual rights more important than childrens?

And an orphanage is "as close an environment as possible" or better one run by the Catholic church, in which children are forced to se*xually satisfy the priest or the nun. grin grin grin

Welcome to the real world! In the best interest of kids.

I would rather give my kids to a homes*exual couple (friends I know very well) if I was about to die than to a holy orphanage. grin grin


It's not to engage in the acts, it's to participate in the celebration of the act. It's forced assent and participation. Tyranny

You don't have to celebrate anything. I have never been asked to celebrate homes*exuality, have you? grin


As above

As above.


The point is it's homosexuals who insist that homosexuality colour all our social institutions - to normalis/legitimise it.

So?

Marriage is not a heterosexual institution. It came about as a direct result of the outcome of the male/female union. That outcome has implications for society' flourishing. So we publically celebrate, endorse and support it.

And gay marriages are the outcome of same s*ex unions, so?
I don't understand how the relatively small percentage of gays in a society hinder societies from flourishing but I can see how they are useful, keyword overpopulation. wink


No one asks if you are gay or straight or if you love your spouse. Gay people have the exact same right as everyone else to marry a member of the opposite sex for that reason. Marriage was not an attempt to discriminate against gays or due to animus against them.

Like I have already told you, your concept of marriage is not universal and has never been.

They don't want that right, or an equivalent right which captures their unions. They wan tto re-define the rights of others - and children - to feel good about themselves.

How exactly do they re-define the rights of others?

It's not acceptance they are seeking, it's endorsement and celebration - by force!

Nobody can force you to endorse anything and nobody is trying to. Last time I checked, you still have the freedom of opinion and speech.


I've explained above

No, you have not.


The biological and psychological disorder that it is can be researched quite easily. The health implications and pathologies of the practice are well documented.

Define psychological disorder.


In ancient Greece, it was accepted as a phase men went through (funnily enough it was old men and a young mentor - pederasty) marriage was still expected. It was in no way elvated or formalised or considered anything like marriage. Why should it be?

Wrong! This is ONLY true for some parts of ancient Greece. In some other parts gay marriages were accepted, not only in Greece but in other parts of the world too.


Whether it was permitted and how it was considered are two different things - as I explained re Greece above.

Are you implying that it was permitted but that some / all / most people still considered it abnormal? grin
If it was permitted but some people considered it abnormal, then nothing has changed. For a conservative person like you, it must be good news. grin




Nope. The practice may have been overlooked or allowed. It may even have been ritualised to a degree, but it was never considered as marriage.

Wrong!

Evidence exists that same-sex marriages were tolerated in parts of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Artifacts from Egypt, for example, show that same-sex relationships not only existed, but the discovery of a pharaonic tomb for such a couple shows their union was recognized by the kingdom. Meanwhile, accounts of the Israelites’ departure for Canaan include their condemnation of Egyptian acceptance of same-sex practice. In actuality, same-sex marital practices and rituals are less known in Egypt compared to Mesopotamia, where documents exist for a variety of marital practices, including male lovers of kings and polyandry. None of the recorded laws of Mesopotamia, including the Code of Hammurabi, contain restrictions against same-sex unions despite the fact that marriages are otherwise well regulated (Eskridge).

http://www.randomhistory.com/history-of-gay-marriage.html


Homosexuality is morally repugnant and sinful. I do not foreclose on peoples choice to practice it or deny them rights as a result. Just like fornicators and adulterers.

For you, not for me.

Gay marriage is an oxymoron. The distinctive of marriage is of it being a formalised male/female union. It arose due to the procreative possibilty of same. Non-existent in a gay union.

You are entitled to your opinion.


One cannot preach a negative view of homosexuality or refuse to publicly declare approval for it without sanctions in the climate that prevails in the West. You can lose your job, business or livelihood and be socially ostracised.


TV

You can refuse to publicly declare your approval, in the same way people refuse to publicly declare their approval for black or Muslim people even though discrimination based on gender, skin color or religious affiliation is forbidden.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 4:15pm On Feb 03, 2015
carefreewannabe:

Says who?
Simplistic

carefreewannabe:
Wrong, group marriage takes place between males and females.
Show us where this practice is extant and of itself leads to a flourishing community? It's one of the exceptions that proves the rule of marriage as defined. As ever, your shoddy ideology precludes you seeing the big picture.

carefreewannabe:
And there were gay marriages in ancient times. Free education for all. cheesy
As above, never in any significant way. And certainly not as the mainstay of a flourishing community. They would never have been anything other than a parody or expression degeneracy. Afterall one Emperor married his horse, why not champion that as a form of marriage. Or your sister that married herself the other day grin! Abberations and perversions are exceptions that prove the rule.

carefreewannabe:
http://www.reformation.org/perverted-marriage-of-nero.html And an orphanage is "as close an environment as possible" or better one run by the Catholic church, in which children are forced to se*xually satisfy the priest or the nun. grin grin grin
Strawman - who is championing orphanages? Children should be placed in a replica of the normal biological arrangement. Governments should incentivise it to ensure all have this possibility. Orphanages are not something I champion, neither is gay adoption.

Double strawman - churches are not the only one or the major player in orphanages.
Triple strawman - abuse is always magnified in care home situations

carefreewannabe:
Welcome to the real world! In the best interest of kids.
You've been served here wink

carefreewannabe:
I would rather give my kids to a homes*exual couple (friends I know very well) if I was about to die than to a holy orphanage. grin grin
Are you a farm animal? What's with the straw? cheesy
It would be best for your kids to be placed within a natural parenting sdituation with relatives as close to you as possible, followed by those culturally similar, then at least a male/female union.

Your ideological lockjaw will not permit you to do what is in the best interest of your kids. Is it the same pathos preventing you marrying, whilst championing it for the ineligible. Shame and confusion sad

carefreewannabe:
You don't have to celebrate anything. I have never been asked to celebrate homes*exuality, have you? grin
That happens merely by legally codifying it and giving it societal endorsement. It's furthered by making those that don't agree keep silent or actively participate.

carefreewannabe:
And gay marriages are the outcome of same s*ex unions, so?
I like to give you a little credence - perhaps it's unmerited?
There is no such thing as "gay marriage" - they are redefining marriage so it captures same-sex couples. There's a difference

carefreewannabe:
I don't understand how the relatively small percentage of gays in a society hinder societies from flourishing but I can see how they are useful, keyword overpopulation. wink
1. I don't understand why we need to redefine something that has served so many, so well, for so long just to legitimise this small %.
2. Another Ideological blind spot - who told you the world had an overpopulation problem?
3. And how do homosexual unions change population numbers - as they don't actually procreate - am I oversetimating you?

carefreewannabe:
Like I have already told you, your concept of marriage is not universal and has never been.
It's not my concept - it's a societal concept, marriage as defined. Male/female.

carefreewannabe:
How exactly do they re-define the rights of others?
If they redefine it, what I am left with, is not what I entered into. What marriage was for is now changed, and what it does is done away with.

carefreewannabe:
Nobody can force you to endorse anything and nobody is trying to. Last time I checked, you still have the freedom of opinion and speech.
Legally codifying marriage as a homosexual institution means socieltal endorsement. Most people don't want to - it's been forced on populaces around the world. And in the West, you cannot have a negative opinion about it without being labelled homophobe or bigot.

carefreewannabe:
Define psychological disorder.
In this case an wrongly ordered desire and use of bodily organs in a physcally dissonant way.

carefreewannabe:
Wrong! This is ONLY true for some parts of ancient Greece. In some other parts gay marriages were accepted, not only in Greece but in other parts of the world too.
I have schooled you at length about abberations, exceptions, flourishing societies and proving the rule. If they were started and died away, there was a reason for that. An unworkable , unvaluable or deleterious novation.

Why do you argue against polygamy?

carefreewannabe:
Are you implying that it was permitted but that some / all / most people still considered it abnormal? grin
Smoking is permitted - and healthwise less dangerous than homosexuality - is it normal?

carefreewannabe:
If it was permitted but some people considered it abnormal, then nothing has changed. For a conservative person like you, it must be good news. grin
The Gospel is the only good news wink!

carefreewannabe:

Wrong!

Evidence exists that same-sex marriages were tolerated in parts of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Artifacts from Egypt, for example, show that same-sex relationships not only existed, but the discovery of a pharaonic tomb for such a couple shows their union was recognized by the kingdom. Meanwhile, accounts of the Israelites’ departure for Canaan include their condemnation of Egyptian acceptance of same-sex practice. In actuality, same-sex marital practices and rituals are less known in Egypt compared to Mesopotamia, where documents exist for a variety of marital practices, including male lovers of kings and polyandry. None of the recorded laws of Mesopotamia, including the Code of Hammurabi, contain restrictions against same-sex unions despite the fact that marriages are otherwise well regulated (Eskridge).
http://www.randomhistory.com/history-of-gay-marriage.html
And what has this shown except that it was at times "tolerated", "existed" and not "legislated for as opposed to actively legislated against". I have spoken at length about abberations, ill thought out novation, rules and exceptions.

Are you saying just because a practice was at one time historically extant, it legitimises it? What of slavery? or public beheadings?
http://www.reformation.org/perverted-marriage-of-nero.html

carefreewannabe:
You can refuse to publicly declare your approval, in the same way people refuse to publicly declare their approval for black or Muslim people even though discrimination based on gender, skin color or religious affiliation is forbidden.
It's not the same thing. In any event I have not championed dioscrtimination against homosexuals. Don't appeal to emotion, sentiment or your lunch grin


TV
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 4:56pm On Feb 03, 2015
TV01:

Simplistic

And yet you failed to answer. grin

Show us where this practice is extant and of itself leads to a flourishing community? It's one of the exceptions that proves the rule of marriage as defined. As ever, your shoddy ideology precludes you seeing the big picture.

If you first show me how it prevents a society from flourishing. wink

As above, never in any significant way. And certainly not as the mainstay of a flourishing community. They would never have been anything other than a parody or expression degeneracy. Afterall one Emperor married his horse, why not champion that as a form of marriage. Or your sister that married herself the other day grin! Abberations and perversions are exceptions that prove the rule.
Strawman - who is championing orphanages? Children should be placed in a replica of the normal biological arrangement. Governments should incentivise it to ensure all have this possibility. Orphanages are not something I champion, neither is gay adoption.

Should, would, could. You can champion whatever you want, the reality is that we live in a world, in which a great number of traditional marriages end up in failure, if not in divorce then in homes where arguments, domestic abuse, lack of love are the order of the day. Welcome to the real world TV!

Double strawman - churches are not the only one or the major player in orphanages.
Triple strawman - abuse is always magnified in care home situations
You've been served here wink

Who said churches were the major player?
Who said abuse is ALWAYS magnified in care home situations?


Are you a farm animal? What's with the straw? cheesy
It would be best for your kids to be placed within a natural parenting sdituation with relatives as close to you as possible, followed by those culturally similar, then at least a male/female union.
Your ideological lockjaw will not permit you to do what is in the best interest of your kids. Is it the same pathos preventing you marrying, whilst championing it for the ineligible. Shame and confusion sad

Not necessarily, if I had to choose between you and the gay couple I know, I would choose them. I mean it.

No shame!


That happens merely by legally codifying it and giving it societal endorsement. It's furthered by making those that don't agree keep silent or actively participate.

That's your problem, not mine, am not homophobic. wink

I like to give you a little credence - perhaps it's unmerited?
There is no such thing as "gay marriage" - they are redefining marriage so it captures same-sex couples. There's a difference

Whatever.

1. I don't understand why we need to redefine something that has served so many, so well, for so long just to legitimise this small %.

Let those whom it serves so well, endorse it. The small % should not have any considerable impact on this beautiful institution that breeds so many children and future adults with all sorts of psychological issues. grin

2. Another Ideological blind spot - who told you the world had an overpopulation problem?

Thanks to gay people it is not YET overpopulated. wink

3. And how do homosexual unions change population numbers - as they don't actually procreate - am I oversetimating you?

They don't increase them like heaters*exual couples. See Nigeria. grin

It's not my concept - it's a societal concept, marriage as defined. Male/female.

For you. Once again, the concept is not universal. I don't feel like going round in circles.
And the societal concept of marriage in the West is NOW not only male / female but also male / male and female / female.

If they redefine it, what I am left with, is not what I entered into. What marriage was for is now changed, and what it does is done away with.

So for you to define marriage the way you do, everyone has to define it the same way? grin

Legally codifying marriage as a homosexual institution means socieltal endorsement. Most people don't want to - it's been forced on populaces around the world. And in the West, you cannot have a negative opinion about it without being labelled homophobe or bigot.

Your problem, not mine. I don't feel forced.


In this case an wrongly ordered desire and use of bodily organs in a physcally dissonant way.

So anal s*ex is now a mental disorder? grin

I have schooled you at length about abberations, exceptions, flourishing societies and proving the rule. If they were started and died away, there was a reason for that. An unworkable , unvaluable or deleterious novation.

If you think that gay marriages will prevent Western societies from flourishing, you are free to move back to Nigeria. cheesy

Why do you argue against polygamy?

I don't. If carried out properly, it is a good thing for some people.

Smoking is permitted - and healthwise less dangerous than homosexuality - is it normal?

Does this question make sense to you?


The Gospel is the only good news wink!

Noted.


And what has this shown except that it was at times "tolerated", "existed" and not "legislated for as opposed to actively legislated against". I have spoken at length about abberations, ill thought out novation, rules and exceptions.

Are you saying just because a practice was at one time historically extant, it legitimises it? What of slavery? or public beheadings?
http://www.reformation.org/perverted-marriage-of-nero.html

Your argument was that homo*sexuality and gay marriages have never been accepted in human history and I showed you that you were wrong.


It's not the same thing. In any event I have not championed dioscrtimination against homosexuals. Don't appeal to emotion, sentiment or your lunch grin


TV

Saying that homos*exuals are mentally ill is not discrimination grin
It is as scientifically proven as the statement that black people are less intelligent. grin grin

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by TV01(m): 10:11pm On Feb 03, 2015
As ever, you have no substantive position. Gay marriage should be allowed because;

1. It happened in the historical past
2. Because abuse happens in care homes & among priests/in churches
3. Because some hets make a mess of marriage
4. Because identifying as homosexual is like being black
5. Becuse people should be able to define marriage as they choose grin

Nothing about what marriage is, why it came into being, what it does, or most of all what re-defining it says. Absurdly simplistic grin!

carefreewannabe:

If you first show me how it prevents a society from flourishing. wink
1. Marriage ceases to be legally or socially endorsed as our way of raising children - it merely becomes the acknowledgement of desire.
2. The norms of the homosexual lifestyle become embedded in marriage - concepts such as adultery, consummation, fidelity etc, all disappear.
3. Legitimising what is an aberrant and unhealthy lifestyle, will see it proliferate and generate a huge health cost to society
4. And of course there's the problems faced by those who do not buy into it being victimised by legal fiat....to mention a few
5. Gay unions demand legitimisation and benefits from a society they add no value to.

carefreewannabe:
Should, would, could. You can champion whatever you want, the reality is that we live in a world, in which a great number of traditional marriages end up in failure, if not in divorce then in homes where arguments, domestic abuse, lack of love are the order of the day. Welcome to the real world TV!
And this is a cogent argument for gay unions because...?

carefreewannabe:

Who said churches were the major player?
Who said abuse is ALWAYS magnified in care home situations?
You tried to smear church in order to justify gay unions. You also made the false bait and switch of care homes being the only alternative for orphans. It is true however that abuse is more likely in a care home.

carefreewannabe:
Not necessarily, if I had to choose between you and the gay couple I know, I would choose them. I mean it.
And like I said, that is more indicative of your shallow thinking and warped ideology. And immersion in your own selfish desires. You'd risk your childs future to prove a misplaced ideological point?

No surprise, as you argue for gay marriage and gay adoption, whilst neither understanding or having the wherewithal to marry yourself and lacking the ability to make a childs welfare paramount over your desires - quite gay really grin!

carefreewannabe:

That's your problem, not mine, am not homophobic. wink
Parroting the word homophobic - which is actually meaningless - does not an argument make. I believe marriage is a distinctively male/female relationship and is best for the welfare of any resulting children. Label that belief as you please.


carefreewannabe:
Let those whom it serves so well, endorse it. The small % should not have any considerable impact on this beautiful institution that breeds so many children and future adults with all sorts of psychological issues. grin
As much as it delights me to expose the paucity of your arguments, it saddens me that you make them.

Redefining marriage changes it for everyone and restates it purpose to civilisation. We are not just expanding it - lets say for example allowing 1st cousin marriage (and I know that happens in some places) - we are changing it's very essence. It is not about the numbers, it's about what we state as it's definition and purpose.

carefreewannabe:

Thanks to gay people it is not YET overpopulated. wink
The non-existent breeding ability of gay couples is statistically insignificant to the worlds population

carefreewannabe:

They don't increase them like heaters*exual couples. See Nigeria. grin
Nigeria is not overpopulated - it suffers poor management and resource utilisation

carefreewannabe:

For you. Once again, the concept is not universal. I don't feel like going round in circles.
And the societal concept of marriage in the West is NOW not only male / female but also male / male and female / female.
Nope, society never made that call - a few elitists in Governments did - and in time when society sees the fallout, nature will take it's course.

carefreewannabe:

So for you to define marriage the way you do, everyone has to define it the same way? grin
I don't define marriage my way. It's what it is and always has been. If marriage is individually defined it becomes meaningless.

carefreewannabe:

So anal s*ex is now a mental disorder? grin
Along with tribadism,fisting, felching, docking and anilingus, the use of small furry animals and copious amounts of chemicals, amongst others.

carefreewannabe:

If you think that gay marriages will prevent Western societies from flourishing, you are free to move back to Nigeria. cheesy
I am free to move to Nigeria regardless cheesy!

carefreewannabe:
Saying that homos*exuals are mentally ill is not discrimination grin
It is as scientifically proven as the statement that black people are less intelligent. grin grin
No. That was the prevailing scientific thinking until the 70's and it was never systematically refuted, it was overturned using ideological pressure.

As to black people being less intelligent or not, that is neither here nor there. If it's the case, does it make them less human or demand they be given special rights. Is intelligence the sum of a person or even the main or most desired quality?

You're on a long run of poor form Carefree grin. Up your game or face the prospect of relegation to the romance board.


TV
Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 10:17pm On Feb 03, 2015
TV01:
As ever, you have no substantive position. Gay marriage shoul dbe allowed because;
1. It happened in the historical past
2. Because abuse happens in care homes
3. Because some hets make a mess of marriage
4. Because identifying as homosexual is like being black

TV

I never said so and because you are twisting my words, I will ignore the rest and we will talk again when you quote me accurately.

Good night TV. Have a good rest.

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Re: Homophobia! - Nature Or Nurture? by Nobody: 1:28am On Feb 04, 2015
dinachi:
A sick man wakes up one day and decides to start licking another mans shit hole and digging same with his dick. One word. INSANITY!
Going by this school of reasoning,you clearly define that you can also wake up one morning and decide to start sucking large diiiccks,isn't it? undecided

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