The Left’s “Homophobic” Problem
I’m sick and tired of homosexual advocates labeling those who oppose homosexuality as “homophobic.”
Espn.com, which is blantantly critizes any athlete who objects to homosexuality and gushingly promotes or hypes-up any gay athlete (e.g., Sheryl Swoopes), had a Page 2 article that dropped the homophobic card on Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller because he refused to play “Brokeback Mountain”–the liberal establishment’s hit movie of the year because of its anti-traditionalist gay love affair. LZ Granderson, who wrote the Miller piece, cries foul, characterizing Miller’s decision as an “act of blatant discrimination.” Granderson implies that Miller’s act is homophobic, prefacing his discrimination diatribe about Miller by calling an NBA player’s comment that he wouldn’t want to play on a team with a gay player a “homophobic comment.”
As I’ve explained in a previous post, toleration of gays–rather than overt approbation–does not make one homophobic. From the perspective of someone who disagrees with the gay lifestyle and their attempts in the courts to overthrow traditional marriage, my mere disagreement should not (and does not) make one a homophobe–someone with an abnormal fear of gays and lesbians. If I owned a movie theater like Larry Miller, there is no way I would have shown “Brokeback Mountain.” Miller had no obligation to show Brokeback and promote its gay agenda.
Homosexual advocates or who approve (unwittingly or audaciously) of homosexual behavior pounce on any person who dares object or disagree with homosexuality and automatically define that person as homophobic. Their aim is to silence dissent and scare away grass-roots support for those who have the courage to publicly denounce and disagree with the aims of the homosexual movement. Flipping the coin to the other side, is it accurate to call those who support homosexual marriage “heterophobic”? Of course not.
No one likes to be called a bigot, especially when that slur is undeserved. Granderson’s article is a snide display of a homosexual advocate who can’t believe that a NBA owner should be able to get away with shunning Hollywood’s gay movie of choice. It is Granderson who should apologize, not Miller.
January 18th, 2006 at 10:05 am
SG,
Your comment typifies the type of slanderous rhetoric that homosexual rights advocates or supporters use to unjustly and erroneously condemn those who disagree with homosexuality.
Mere disagreement or rejection of an ideology or lifestyle does not mean that the disagreement is the result of an abnormal fear. For example, if I disagree with partial-birth abortion, that does not mean that I am “partial-birthophobic” or if I believe that democracy is preferable to socialism that I am “socialphobic.”
My disagreement with same-sex marriage is based upon political theory, child development theory, etc. It is not born of an irrational or abrupt fear of homosexuals. You believe that anyone who objects to homosexuality is ipso facto homophobic. You are wrong.