Why does the LGBT community and activists disrespect freedom of speech when it is against them?
Posted on July 10th, 2010 by admin
I believe every one is entitled to their opinion so if religious people say homosexuality is wrong it is their right to freedom of speech and thought and they end up being called homophobs.They are not so so scared of homosexuals they just oppose them and phobia is a fear especially unreasonable fear.
my thoughts exactly, the whole concept of freedom of speech only exists to favour certain people…anyone who doesnt agree with homos, religions and other things have a right to say it.
July 10th, 2010 at 11:43 am
A phobia is an extreme fear or aversion. What they suffer is definitely classified as an aversion. By the way, harshly criticizing you is not stripping your freedom of speech. Incarcerating you for speaking your mind is. People really need to get this through their bloody heads.
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July 10th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
my thoughts exactly, the whole concept of freedom of speech only exists to favour certain people…anyone who doesnt agree with homos, religions and other things have a right to say it.
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July 10th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
"Homophobic" is the closest word English has to describe someone who discriminates against homosexuality like a racist would discriminate against a certain race. "Sexual orientationism" might be more accurate, but it is also not a word.
No one is saying bigots do not have freedom of speech. The LGBT community, and people outside of it who are fans of equality are simply exersizing THEIR freedom of speech by retaliating. If you use your freedom of speech to say something stupid, I will call you an idiot and tell you why, for that is MY freedom of speech.
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July 10th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
How are we disrespect there freedom of speech all we do is stand up for are self’s
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July 10th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
i agree 100%
but to put urself in their position. assuming ur christian, well there was an artist and he was getting funding from the government to make sculptures so he decided to urinate in a bucket and put the cross upside down inside it. its disrespectful ya but he has the right to do so
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July 10th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I respect freedom of speech.
When someone is being ignorant, hateful, or stupid, I use MY freedom to express how I feel about their words.
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July 10th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
because most activists use extreme tactics against them. Have you ever seen the WestBoro Baptist Church? They Hold up signs that say "God Hates Fags and Fags Die God Laughs" and its people like them that make LGBT people weary of those who speak out against them. also the WBBC as makes hateful songs against gay people.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslDXXIu4b4
July 10th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Saying that someone is a homophobe does not disrespect freedom of speech in the slightest. Indeed, saying they should not call you a homophobe is disrespecting freedom of speech.
Everyone has the right to speak against speech they don’t like – that’s what freedom of speech *is*, dearie.
The correct response to someone who calls you a homophobe is, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it."
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July 10th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Suppose I were to ask, "Why does the Religious Community go around trying to deprive people of their natural, God-given rights?" Do you think that people have a right to the opinion that the earth is flat? How about my opinion that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are not just wrong, they’re inherently evil, and ought to be suppressed? To my first question, you might well object that Jews, Christians, and Muslims do not make up a community–and I might retort that they actually are MUCH more of a community than the gay men, Lesbians, bisexuals, and assorted trannies that are shoe-horned in together by Yahoo! Answers in a sort of catch-all category for "Perversions and Paraphilias." There is not even a negative coherence to "GLBT" in the heterogeneous jumble that Yahoo!’s corporate mentality has forced us into, such as "non-heterosexual"–as the Violation of Community Guidelines Notices that we receive from Yahoo! Answers remind us, when we try too pointedly to dissociate ourselves from heterosexual sadomasochists, necrophiliacs, coprophiles, pedophiles and transvestites. In a world in which the true, original meaning of Greek root-words were remembered and respected, there could be no quarrel with your refusal to take "phobia" to mean "strong and irrational aversion"–but, alas, however much we may wince, nay shudder, at their ignorant barbarism, that is what people in the modern world mean by it. Still, we don’t have to participate in this degradation of the language, you and I: We can insist in plain English, with Germanic roots, that we hate and loathe our respective objects of abhorrence–as you should say of homosexuality, and as I would say of Abrahamic religions–and that we laugh to scorn any suggestion that we fear them.
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July 10th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Homophobia is not necessarily a fear of homosexuals. It is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards homosexuality and people identified or perceived as being homosexual. Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear.
Religious people do have the right to think and say that homosexuality is wrong, and we have the right to tell them that they are being homophobic. I see no disrespect of the freedom of speech.
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July 10th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
*facepalm*
Listen, you have a right to express your opinion…but so does everyone else. If you voice an opinion that people disagree with, they don’t have to smile and nod along; they have the right to express what they think about you and your opinion. They are not denying you the right to free speech by doing so.
If you want free speech, you play by the same rules as everyone else.
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