Homo Sapient

Friday, July 30, 2010 by John Henry

Another video inspired by a jerk on Facebook.  In this case we have a guy who responded to a story about a homophobe who was kicked out of EMU for clearly indicating to her professors and counselors that she intended to use their degree for the express purpose of violating ethics laws and acting as a religious agent in a government institution.

I’ve included the original written response, which I truncated and didn’t post, right below.

You're not a waste of space because you believe homosexuality is wrong. 

You're a waste of space because you're an obnoxious, bigoted dick with a big mouth making a fool of yourself by not only using profanity but also spewing hate on someone else's space.  Believing homosexuality is wrong is just one small facet of the gem of overall obnoxious bigoted dickness that is you.

If you believe homosexuality is wrong, don't have sex with guys and STFU.  That's what I do, and I don't even believe it's wrong, it's just not right *for me*. 

For other people, it is.  They are very happy being who they are, and in a world where there is already far too much hate and ignorance, I'll not begrudge them their happiness.

Other people are also left-handed, blue-eyed, purely one ethnicity or another, non-musical, afraid of public speaking, not particularly adept with the English language, very good at working on vehicles, and a whole lot of other things that I am not.

That doesn't make them wrong, it just makes them not me.

You, on the other hand, wish to control other people; you want to denigrate and belittle them for who they are; you want to hate them and insult them and degrade them over something that is actually not a damned bit of your business.  That means you are an obnoxious, bigoted, dick, AND you are wrong, because you are trying to control other human beings and you have no right to do that.

Maybe you can answer a question I've always wanted to ask one of your kind - by which I mean bigoted homophobes - because I never really understood it:

Why is a nice heterosexual guy like you so worried about what some other guy is doing with his genitals anyway?   I'd think with your express disinterest in men as sexual partners, you would be completely disinterested in the whole subject of what other men do with their penises.  Are you concerned that they're having more fun than you?  Do you worry that you're missing out on something?  Are you perhaps more interested in penises than you're letting on?  Or are you just another insecure bigot looking for an excuse to feel like you're better than someone?  Because if that's the case it makes me feel kinda crappy that I've spent so much time standing against anti-Arab and anti-Semitic and anti-brown-people sentiment in this country, knowing that you are around and so richly deserving of being treated with the same bigotry and ignorance you show others.

So enlighten me.  Why do you care about other guys' penises so much?

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