I don’t typically hear about atheists who are as virulently homophobic as a fellow I met on Facebook. This discussion started when I posted on my wall about an anti-gay bill in Nigeria.
Royalist Humanist, an FB user, went on homophobic rants too numerous to repeat here but here are a few examples.
“I am an atheist, I have always stood for the equal basic right rights for all irrespective of any other qualifications. As a Humanist, I do not discriminate against anybody else on the basis of sexual orientation alone …! However, I have the liberty to socialize with a person of specific inclination or not, that is not discrimination…. that is my basic human right ….”
“Gay marriage is something new to Nigeria, therefore they are sticking to the already established moral code about sexual unions between adult and consenting male and female for sex through the vaginal route-called the natural or normal sex. Thoses who come with a new invention of homosexuality: Anal sex between men or anal-sex between a man and a woman on the name of gay-marriage has the burdern to prove their case….”
“Moreover, human anaal canal has not any defence mechanism against entery of sexual diseases through the male sex organ and the human male sex organ has not evolved any protection against the foul feces in the anal canal and therefore diseases like AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases like Gonorrea and Syphilis are 20-40 times commoner in the anal-sex practitioners like homosexuals and gays as well as in Bisexual men and women. The problems of Bisexuals: A Bisexual man is the one who pracrices vaginal as well as anal sex and thereby easily spreads diseases acquired through the anal route into women through vaginal route as he is a bisexual. A Bisexual woman is the one who allows men to have sex with her through vagina as well as through anal canal; she often gets sexual diseases from Biseual men and then other men get AIDS and other sex diseases through her….”
See if you know where to begin correcting Mr. Humanist. And ask: we might expect this sort of ignorant ranting from religiosi, but don’t we expect better of atheists?
3 users responded " Atheist Homophobe "
December 1 2011
Wow.
I really don’t think he’s going to respond here, but just in case:
In regards to evidence, I don’t think I have to do your homework for you, Royalist. You are making claims, please provide evidence.
In regards to exceptions, you are right, they are exceptions to the rule. Exactly my point! The fact that there are exceptions shows that it is not a hard and fast rule, but a malleable guideline.
In regards to harms. Your argument is still invalid. Show your proof or shut up.
Finally, in regards to swearing, WTF is an acronym which may or may not refer to a specific obscenity. It is used specifically because it is vague; if you read an obscenity there, it is because you are obscene. My use of it reflected my complete bafflement at how you can, in the same breath, claim to support equal rights irrespective of sexual orientation, and support this legislation in Nigeria. How you can then go on to spew such a hate-filled, misinformed, ignorant, bigoted, sexist, homophobic rant, and then return to your claim of respect for equal rights.
December 2 2011
Wow. I don’t even know where to begin in correcting his “facts.” A bisexual woman is someone who has both vaginal and anal sex? Ummm… sure, buddy. The anal tract has no defenses against viruses and that’s why we have AIDS? Riiiiight. Because the vaginal tract DOES have so many defenses against AIDS. I have no idea where this guy studied… perhaps that’s the problem… he didn’t.
Things like this just illustrate to me why gay marriage and gay rights continue to be such hot-button issues. Even an intelligent, thinking person can be homophobic. It isn’t about rationality for some people. It’s a totally irrational fear or repulsion of gay people. It’s a completely emotional reaction, not a rational one, no matter how much they try to rationalize it.
In my experience, the only cure for homophobia is personally getting to know gay people as friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. Once you see that they are just like the rest of us, it’s hard to deny them the rights that we hold dear. But until then, some people, in their ignorance, consider gays some kind of semi-human subspecies. It baffles me, but that’s because I have known tons of gay people.
December 2 2011
Thanks for commenting, guys. Thanks for correcting this spewing of venom from a guy who is an embarrassment to the atheist community. Clearly he’s not part of the skeptic community, or he wouldn’t be talking like this!
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