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...White finds women and children particularly difficult to understand. Another early sign is poor discrimination of consonants, which--in both male and female speech--tend to be higher in pitch and lower in intensity than vowels, so that thin, for example, may be indistinguishable from fin or shin or sin...
...ecclesiophobia: ... church eisoptrophobia: ... mirrors, or seeing oneself in a mirror electrophobia: ... electricity eleutherophobia: ... freedom emetophobia: ... vomiting enetophobia: ... pins enochlophobia: ... crowds enosiophobia: ... committing an unpardonable sin entomophobia: ... insects eosophobia: ... dawn or daylight epistaxiophobia: ... nosebleeds epistemophobia: ... knowledge equinophobia: ... horses eremophobia: ... being oneself ereuthrophobia: ... blushing ergophobia: ... work erotophobia: ... sexual love euphobia: ... hearing good news eurotophobia: ... female genitalia...
Conservatives denigrate and marginalize people based on their distaste--lacking any rational explanation--for the acts of love in which homosexuals engage. This marginalization occurs both when the conservative arguments are targeted squarely at homosexuals themselves and when "hate the sin, love the sinner" arguments are used. I would be denounced, and rightly so, if I argued that Catholics should not be allowed to attend Mass on the grounds that I have a distaste for the ceremony while protesting that I have no issue with Catholics themselves. Of course, when I argue for barring the practice of holding Mass...
...only preserve life by 10-15 years, those years are critical if communities are to survive. And beyond either of these arguments is a basic humanitarian obligation. With effective life-extending AIDS drugs available at prices below $1,000 a year, allowing millions to perish would be a monstrous sin of omission...
...homosexuality (a term under which I include every shade of the BGLT rainbow) as biological, or at the very least unchosen and unchangeable, might see no need to investigate further. But actions always entail choices, and those opposed to these choices can easily proclaim a doctrine of "hate the sin, love the sinner." Those suffering from kleptomania also have strong desires for immoral acts; their situation is monstrously unfair, but that doesn't make theft morally acceptable. Using biology as an excuse promotes an image of homosexuals as sick, diseased unfortunates, as lepers to be ministered unto and "cured" through...