Oh the frustration... I had something written but then IE crashed and it's all gone. To sum it up, sort of,
In school growing up we were taught a lot about how we should be tolerant, usually alongside topics like slavery and the Holocaust. Despite being taught tolerance in the simplest form, the quest for tolerance still turns into a quest for acceptance and agreement. I think this indicates that there's something about humans that wants agreement. Most people have a harder time than you separating people with people's behaviors... I mean... people's behaviors are a huge part of who people are. Right? Regarind homosexuality in particular, though (and this does carry into other things), if a gay man feels that his sexual preference is a huge part of his identity, you considering it morally wrong is practically the same as you rejecting him seeing as how you're not approving of a huge part of his identity. It may also have a lot to do with how you view homosexuality (not that I could presume to know, but). If this gay man really feels that he was born gay, born to love other men, you
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Date: 2004-03-03 12:03 am (UTC)In school growing up we were taught a lot about how we should be tolerant, usually alongside topics like slavery and the Holocaust. Despite being taught tolerance in the simplest form, the quest for tolerance still turns into a quest for acceptance and agreement. I think this indicates that there's something about humans that wants agreement. Most people have a harder time than you separating people with people's behaviors... I mean... people's behaviors are a huge part of who people are. Right?
Regarind homosexuality in particular, though (and this does carry into other things), if a gay man feels that his sexual preference is a huge part of his identity, you considering it morally wrong is practically the same as you rejecting him seeing as how you're not approving of a huge part of his identity. It may also have a lot to do with how you view homosexuality (not that I could presume to know, but). If this gay man really feels that he was born gay, born to love other men, you