Word: homophobia
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While the presence of such extremists on campus will provide a convenient caricature of the religious right for us to snicker at, it also forces us towards a more serious evaluation of just how far we are willing to go in opposing homophobia. Even though WBC may be a bunch of deranged yahoos, the ban on offensive speech remains a bad idea. Although we may have trouble articulating where we draw the line, the fact is that most of us have at least drawn...
...society rightly celebrates that it judges people on the basis of their actions. As such, by teaching that homosexuality is sinful, churches ensure that any “love” their congregants profess for homosexuals will be condescending and superficial at best. The roots of Christian homophobia lie in ancient Levitical laws, the applicability of which to modern society is clearly dubious. There are simply too many other parts of the Bible that Christians no longer believe for us to be able to pretend that contemporary Christian anti-homosexuality is not inspired by secular homophobia...
Continued contradiction on the issue makes it clear that homophobia is making its voice heard within the Christian establishment in more places than Westboro Baptist. Christianity has been on the wrong side of too many issues in the past—from slavery to civil rights to women’s suffrage—for progressive Christians to remain quiet on this issue. It is time to draw the line...
Such blatant homophobia and discrimination by Harvard, even in 1920, is deplorable. The existence of such a court and the prosecution of students on the basis of sexual orientation is appalling. The events that transpired in the 1920s are not excusable because the atmosphere at Harvard and in society was less understanding at the time; they should not have happened then, and they should not happen anywhere today...
These figures suggest that sexual orientation may deserve limited consideration in risk analyses, but they do not explain why the FDA has allowed a residue of homophobia to remain on its policies for 17 years. In Sept. 2000, the FDA narrowly rejected proposals that would have reduced the abstinence period required of gay men to either one or five years. About half of the nation’s blood banks publicly supported a one-year rule, which would have lead to 112,000 new donors, according to FDA estimates...