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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
I am sorry, I must have missed that post. I saw the one where the poll was broken down by political party but it didn't have anything to indicate if they were against it because of their political leanings or because of their religious beliefs. Maybe you or GS could help a boi out here.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
I would have thought they would be more likely to be Catholic but that could be in part due to living next to a homophobic catholic most of my life.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

Interesting link. thanks for finding it. The only part that really surprised me was this...

Much as that graphic is one of GotSteel's favorites in his never ending campaign of anti-religious activism, we've known for decades that there is no direct connection between the belief that homosexual acts are sinful and a fear and loathing of homosexuals (Oxford, Collins, MacMillan, Webster's). Not to put too fine a point on it, in its 2013 polling Pew Research found 65% of mainline Protestants and 71% of Catholics accepting of homosexuality. That's higher than the 60% acceptance rate among Americans overall. Only 31% of Americans still think homosexuality should be discouraged, and almost half of them give a reason other than religion.

The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored... Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. ~J. Ab. Psychol, 1996

K.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

You're claiming a 18 year old study remains relevant? Really?

If a lamp post could talk, the great advantage it would have over you is its lack of any ability to think it knows what it's talking about.

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No homo left behind?

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
You're claiming a 18 year old study remains relevant? Really?

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

You're claiming a 18 year old study remains relevant? Really?

If a lamp post could talk, the great advantage it would have over you is its lack of any ability to think it knows what it's talking about.

So you're not claiming an 18 year old study is still relevant today. Then why did you post about it?

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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
Alternatively it could be that anxiety effected the study, or simply that recruiting homophobes willing to watch gay porn while having electrodes hooked up to their cocks biased the incredibly small sample size.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Who knows....... I certainly dont since he never posts much that is relevant.

It only seems irrelevant to you because I'm not talking about the planet you live on.

One theory is that homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be expressed as homophobia... It’s a compelling theory — and now there is scientific reason to believe it. In this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we and our fellow researchers provide empirical evidence that homophobia can result, at least in part, from the suppression of same-sex desire. ~New York Times, April 27, 2012

The evidence points to repressed homosexual arousal being the underlying cause of primary homophobia. But, in all fairness, that comes with the caveat that I only mean here on Earth.

K.