Current Events > These arguments against gay marriage were made during our lifetimes

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Wild

Yuuup.

We still have people that think it's a choice.

If gay people want to get married and be miserable for the rest of their lives like everyone else just let them. Like really why the hell does anyone care?

I do admit that the stupidity of this quote is funny in 2023. But 20 years ago. A lot of mainstream media unironically used this as anti gay propaganda

There literally are still people who think this way

Many equally dumb arguments are being made on many other issues today.

Were? You still see these arguments against gay people today!

With many of these arguments similarly being made against trans people

A lot of those arguments were openly shared here on CE pre-2015. It wasn't until Gay marriage became legalized that people stopped shitting on it. They realize all the fears they had about Gays and Gay marriages were false. Now most of them are shifting towards Trans instead.

"homosexualism"

jfc

Prestoff posted...

A lot of those arguments were openly shared here on CE pre-2015. It wasn't until Gay marriage became legalized that people stopped shitting on it. They realize all the fears they had about Gays and Gay marriages were false. Now most of them are shifting towards Trans instead.

It's kinda funny how immediately after Obergefell the battle immediately shifted to shitting on trans people without skipping a beat.

Prestoff posted...

A lot of those arguments were openly shared here on CE pre-2015. It wasn't until Gay marriage became legalized that people stopped shitting on it. They realize all the fears they had about Gays and Gay marriages were false. Now most of them are shifting towards Trans instead.

And thankfully GF and most other places this time have learned better and are setting a hardline stance that trans rights are human rights.

A_Good_Boy posted...

It's kinda funny how immediately after Obergefell the battle immediately shifted to shitting on trans people without skipping a beat.

eh, they were fighting us all along, too. there just weren't many people fighting with us for the masses to notice.

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And it's sad they're even allowed to fight it. There's no downside, so it should be automatic.

"Mild, tolerant homophobia"

Lol yeah sure dude.

These are probably all the same people screaming about trans folks and attacking drag shows right now.

Homophobia is ok if you're a "pacific" person.

Atlantic persons can gtfo.

"Homosexualism"
"Mild, tolerant homophobia"

"im just following my religion"

worth noting nearly every single deranged argument used against gays & gay marriage has been microwaved & used as leftovers against trans people

hot take:
If marriage is a right, why do we need a license to do it?

Just want to remind y'all that this was the top definition of the word "homophobic" on Urban Dictionary just 10 years ago:

homophobia \h-m-f-b-\
Noun

Offensive Slur.

1. Non-medical, non-scientific pejorative term used to demean and ridicule any disagreement with or disapproval of aberrant, deviant, or unnatural pseudo sexual behaviors or practices, i.e., with Aberrosexualism, bisexualism, fetishism, homosexualism, lesbianism, necrophilism, sadomasochism, zoophilism, etc.

2. (Sexism) Offensive, pejorative term used to degrade and ridicule the universal rejection of aberrant, deviant, or unnatural pseudo sexual behaviors or practices, i.e., Aberrosexual or homosexual behavior or conduct.

3. (Religion) Disparaging, pejorative term used to attack and stigmatize well-settled Christian and/or Catholic beliefs on human sexuality, marriage, and the family.

4. (Politics) Discriminatory and politicized pejorative term used to deny basic human rights, as well as incite and justify violence against people who disagree with the extremist Aberrosexualist (aka Homosexualist) ideology.

The slur ''homophobia'' has no basis in medicine or science and has never even been listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Homosexualism, however, is considered by many doctors and scientists a real psycho-sexual disorder and was recognized as such in the DSM until excluded in 1973 due to coercive pressures by Aberrosexualist groups, and not due to any clinical studies or medical research.

Synonyms: orthosexuality, sexual normality
Antonyms: Aberrosexualism, homosexualism
1. Although the slur homophobia has a clinical ring to it, the fact is that medically or scientifically homophobia does not exist.
2. Homophobia has never even been listed as a disorder in the Psychological professions Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
3. Aberrosexualist groups disparagingly accuse of homophobia everyone who exercises their basic right to reject their extremist and irrational ideology.
4. The term Homophobia makes those who use look bigoted and ignorant.

It still has more upvotes than downvotes.

Garabandal posted...

Just want to remind y'all that this was the top definition of the word "homophobic" on Urban Dictionary just 10 years ago:

Are you actually taking Urban Dictionary seriously?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Are you actually taking Urban Dictionary seriously?

Not now, but back in the day when I first encountered that I did. I saw it as the consensus of the Internet at the time, so seeing stuff like that really hurt.

lol, Urban Dictionary

3. (Religion) Disparaging, pejorative term used to attack and stigmatize well-settled Christian and/or Catholic beliefs on human sexuality, marriage, and the family.

Yeah, 'well-settled'

Nevermind that there are a growing number of Christian sects that are okay with LGBT people

Homophobes: "Gay people are unnatural! They're deviants! They're creepy!"

Also homophobes: "Why are gay people so mean to us for having opinions?"

hockeybub89 posted...

Homophobes: "Gay people are unnatural! They're deviants! They're creepy!"

Also homophobes: "Why are gay people so mean to us for having opinions?"

The most deranged evolution of the "unnatural" bit is now when people rightfully defend it as something that is occurring in other species, the homophobes have shifted to "eating your young/rape/etc also occurs in nature" as if they weren't the ones that brought "nature" in the argument to begin with.

hockeybub89 posted...

Homophobes: "Gay people are unnatural! They're deviants! They're creepy!"

Also homophobes: "Why are gay people so mean to us for having opinions?"

tHey aRe dAh rEaL biGoT aNd iNtolrAnT!!!!

Zero_Destroyer posted...

The most deranged evolution of the "unnatural" bit is now when people rightfully defend it as something that is occurring in other species, the homophobes have shifted to "eating your young/rape/etc also occurs in nature" as if they weren't the ones that brought "nature" in the argument to begin with.

You know what else occurs in other species? The eating of food. Ban eating