First things first: let's get the obvious out of the way
Homosexuality is a phenomenon which has probably always existed and which has often polarized society into two camps: those who believe that there is something inherently bad/wrong/pathological/abnormal with homosexuality (probably most/all major religions) and those who emphatically disagree. This is normal. After all, the issue of homosexuality deals not only with sex as such, but also with societal norms, reproduction, children and family issues and, most importantly, with love. What could be more mysterious, more fascinating and more controversial than love?
I am
beginning this article with these self-evident truisms not because I
find them particularly interesting, but because we live in a weird time
when only one of these two views gets objectively and calmly discussed,
while the other point of view is immediately censored, denounced and
condemned as some kind of phobia. Now, the word “phobia” can mean one of two things: aversion/hatred or fear/anxiety.
Does this make sense to you?
Why is it that an opinion, a point of view, can only be explained away and dismissed as being in itself pathological/irrational?
Let
me ask you this: can you imagine that somebody might be critical of
homosexuality as such (or of homosexual behavior/practices) without suffering from any kind of phobias or without hating anybody?
