Are homophobic people within their right scope to be hateful towards homosexuals?
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Are homophobic people within their right scope to be hateful towards homosexuals?
It is okay to have negative thoughts, if we can keep them to ourselves. Our thoughts are our own and only we have the right to decide how we perceive things around us.
But then the next question is:
Can we keep our thoughts to ourselves all the time? The answer is a simple No.
We cannot always cage our thoughts in our hearts forever, especially the negative ones. And that is precisely, where the problem starts.
When you have homophobic sensibilities in you, in some form they get reflected in your words and actions. And that reflection of Homophobia in fellow humans’ behaviour is what has led LGBT people run campaigns all over the world for their rights. When a certain belief or sensibility of one section of human population causes pain/humiliation of the other section, then there must be something wrong with the very belief system itself. And in this case, the faulty belief system dictates ‘Homosexuality is unnatural and like a disease.’
Homosexuality has been there since always. It’s just that earlier, humans were not free-minded enough to understand that it is, but a natural process, only different from what they were accustomed to.
Now time is changing. We are progressing. We have to understand that sexuality (Homo, Hetero or Bi) of a human is instrinsic.
Most of us are accustomed to watching heterosexual couples around. So, gay couples can make us uncomfortable initially. But the time has come to do away with this initial discomfort and intolerance, and make life easier for others.
Anyway, I digress. The point is, one cannot dictate what the other will think. If you wish to be homophobic, one cannot possibly force you to change. But is it okay? Well, it is okay on a personal level, but not okay, if you look at the bigger picture. If two people of the same gender wish to live with one another and be happy, then why should the society object to it or hate it? Is it because such couples cannot produce children in the natural process of union? In that case, we can relax. Given the number of heterosexuals that walk the earth, our human race is not going extinct anytime soon.
Many people are homophobic without even realising the destructiveness of homophobia and the consequences it has on real people out there – simply due to the lack of awareness or years of indoctrination. After all, we live in a world dominated by the heterosexuals.
You have the right to be homophobic, or to feel a strong disdain against homosexual acts, only if your homophobia doesn’t affect how you treat other people. If your homophobia affects how you treat other people, then it’s not okay to be homophobic. It’s not okay to be homophobic if it makes you support the laws in various countries that render homosexuality punishable by imprisonment, whipping or death by stoning.
It’s not okay to be homophobic if it makes you think that two men or women who love each other must be barred by the state from building a life together or raising a family. It’s not okay to be homophobic if it makes you, as a lawmaker, disagree to allocate more research funding to find the cure for an illness just because it’s known as a “gay disease”. It’s not okay to be homophobic if it makes you agree that parents have the right to send their gay children to conversion camps, exposing them to physical and mental harm.
It’s not okay to be homophobic if it makes you kick out your own son after finding out that he’s gay.