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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on July 10, 2011 at 1:05am

I think the word 'anomaly' would be ill-fitting at best. I also think your reasoning behind viewing homosexuality as unnatural doesn't work. There are all sorts of naturally occurring phenomena that inhibit breeding.

That said, I don't think it's homophobic to consider homosexuality a biological deviation. It's a tenable position. I don't know how meaningful the statement really is, but just as I said, tenable.

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Permalink Reply by Lord Gaytheist on July 10, 2011 at 8:09am

You do have a point, but still it can be unconvincing. Humans have flipped and scrambled the laws of nature and evolution. We no longer have this strong urge to procreate I guess

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Permalink Reply by Lord Gaytheist on July 10, 2011 at 8:05am

Good point! ;)

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Permalink Reply by Lord Gaytheist on July 10, 2011 at 8:05am

You seem so cool for someone who believe that homosexuals are unnatural!

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Permalink Reply by Jarrod Payne on July 10, 2011 at 2:23am

I must say i find the idea of homophobic atheists a strange one. I am a heterosexual atheist and i cant see any rational reason for homophobia or any form of group discrimination. Group dynamics tells us that the root cause could be something like competition for resources or misattributed in group hostility so perhaps the cause is something unknown and religion (since it is generally so homophobic) is just an easy validation for it.

 

I tend to enjoy the Freudian standpoint that people are homophobic because they refuse to acknowledge their own latent homosexuality and so express angert towards homosexuals who challenge their defence mechanisms. I love this for 2 reasons, firslty for Freuds blatant rejection of the idea of boxing sexuality into homosexual vs heterosexual instead arguing for a range with people falling somewhere between the 2. Also because lots of people who are homophobic hate the mere suggestion that it is because they are suppressing homosexual tendencies, which just adds weight to Freud's argument.

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Permalink Reply by AKICKTOTHEEYE on July 10, 2011 at 4:34am

People will be prejudiced to other people no matter what they believe or don't believe. As long as our laws are unbiased and free from prejudice, everyone has the opportunity to at least try to live a happy life... We've got a long way to go.

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Permalink Reply by Great Dane on July 10, 2011 at 5:55am

Atheists can be everything but religious! Even homophobic!

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Permalink Reply by Neko_74 on July 10, 2011 at 8:25am

I think that if you are a true Atheist, you should not be homophobic or racist or sexist ect. ect. If you are that means your mind is still influenced from what are the morals and ethics you parents, school, or the society you live in taught you. Speaking for myself I am none of these above. People can do whatever they like in their life. It's their life and can do whatever they please. But I repeat, you can't be a true Atheist if you think on bigotry terms. My opinion, anyway!!!

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Permalink Reply by Bob MacVay on July 12, 2011 at 5:34pm

As a true Athiest you are a non beliver in matters of religion. End of story.Stop reading anything more into the definition and please stop trying to add your personal virtues to the Athiest label.If being a true Athiest encompasses all of the virtues you personally subscribe to then I will have to re-evaluate if I am an Athiest or not.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on July 13, 2011 at 3:00am

All true atheists share your opinion on Gods.

All good atheists share your opinion on bigotry. :)

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Permalink Reply by Goldilocks on July 10, 2011 at 11:08am

@sarsare lol, homosapiens are omnivores and as we are of this planet we are and everything we and every other species does is natural, we are part of nature, tis all part of evolution, life etc - I'm talking about biological behaviour here btw - not science etc in that we have stepped away from the natural order of things and perverted them, we also go against natural selection etc, so as a species we may be de-evolving lol (joke kinda)

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Permalink Reply by Wesley on July 10, 2011 at 11:48am

Atheism doesn't prevent stupidity or ignorance or anything else..... so why should homophobia be any different?   I' would bet there are some atheist homophobes.

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