“Members of disliked minority groups are often stereotyped as representing a danger to the majority’s most vulnerable members. For example, Jews in the Middle Ages were accused of murdering Christian babies in ritual sacrifices. Black men in the United States were often lynched after being falsely accused of raping White women.

In a similar fashion, gay people have often been portrayed as a threat to children. Back in 1977, when Anita Bryant campaigned successfully to repeal a Dade County (FL) ordinance prohibiting anti-gay discrimination, she named her organization “Save Our Children,” and warned that “a particularly deviant-minded [gay] teacher could sexually molest children” (Bryant, 1977, p. 114). [Bibliographic references are on a different web page]”

From the article I posted last week, link

I wanted to discuss this article, but no one really commented on it so I'm forcing a discussion over here. Out of curiosity, do you think that accusations that homosexuals are a danger to our children are more targeted at gay men? I mean, isn't that the anti-gay stereotype? "Gay men are pedophiles?"

I was reading this article, written by a lesbian, and wondered, is it just me or are gay men demonized more than gay women? I mentioned this somewhere before, about double standards, and I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself but-- I mean... I don't mean to say that lesbians are any less discriminated against for who they are on a personal basis, but the general, sweeping idea of being against homosexuality seems to me to be especially targeted at men.

I also learned the etymology of the word "homosexual." It evolved in the last century (and by the last century, I mean the 1900s). Homosexuality came first, as a label, and then heterosexuality rose out of that to play its opposite. That said, I realized that the only Biblical translations that would have the word "homosexuality" would be a 20th century translations. That means all versions of the Bible on link.

Which means that, if we want to get really technical and jump through a bunch of serious loopholes, God never actually said that homosexuality was wrong. He may have said sodomy was wrong-- but not homosexuality. See, now I'm being an annoying bitch because I'm playing with semantics and confusing the hell out of you. But think about it. Seriously.