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Originally Posted by maximusveritas
The ignorance in this thread is astonishing.
I suspect that some of the same people denying the genetic component of homsexuality are the same people who deride evolution as "just a theory".
This whole thing reminds me of the Clayton Bigsby sketch from Chappelle's Show.
Instead of being physically blind, however, the mayor is simply in extreme denial. He knows deep inside that he is gay, but can't admit it because he hates the very idea of homosexuality. He hates it so much that he lashes out at fellow homosexuals as a way of attacking the homosexual in himself.
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it's what some psychiatrists would call a classic "projection" : a defense mechanism, placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else
it's believed that anxiety is an underlying cause, in the sense that the thought/reality of being gay causes anxiety, and the mind's way of dealing with the issue causes the person to project.
something i looked up really quickly:
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Psychoanalytic theory has long held that homophobia was the result of repressed homosexual desires. In a recent experiment, a group of homophobic heterosexual men showed more signs of sexual arousal from being shown images of homosexual sex than a control group of non-homophobic heterosexual men; however, anxiety in the former group may explain part of the difference. Similarly, so-called ex-gays, who claim to have "walked away from homosexuality", have often used strong language to condemn the practice (and some have later returned to it). Presently in western countries the group most likely to manifest homophobia is pre-pubescent males and older men
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the issue always interests me because, as someone said, republicans always seem to come out in support of an outed gay politician, yet in all other facets of life, they seem to deride the very thought of gay rights.