I’M NOT HOMOPHOBIC BUT I DON’T LIKE GAYS

 For a while I have always wanted to say something about the LGBT community but I find myself not getting the right voice and the right words, maybe the fear of being tagged homophobic got me. Shoot it, I’m not homophobic but I don’t like gays. That sounds homophobic right? Yeah, I was thinking you will say that. However before you label me with that cruel use of word let’s educate ourselves a little more.

A phobia is a fear you have for something, you detest that thing (e.g spider) as a matter of fact you can’t stand it, you’ll rather die than be found close to the subject of your phobia. Now to be homophobic you have to hate gays, lesbians, bisexuals and everyone else that belongs to that community and this hate isn’t just something you feel in your heart without expressing, then it won’t be a phobia. When it’s your phobia everyone close knows it is, and it becomes your unconscious or sometimes conscious goal to rid the world of it.

 So, if I am to be homophobic I should hate gays as humans, should fight against their very need to exist, do everything in my power to ensure that they are all gone. I must say, that line of thought is outright sick, crazy and wrong on all levels. No human should feel that way towards another. Everyone has been given the free will to live their lives whichever way they want it as long as it doesn’t adversely affect mine.

That crack head that opened fire on a gay Orlando night club, June 12 2016, killing 49 people was homophobic; he asserted power where it wasn’t his business, played God when he was just an ordinary man. He is guiltier than those he tried to condemn; no one has the right to take a life regardless of who they are or what they stand for.

Now that we have established that I’m not homophobic, I still don’t like gays! Why? Because, I have the right not to like or approve of your life choices because it’s my feelings and believes, and I absolutely have a right to it. Should you care about those believes? NO but should you respect it YES!

People like me are not respected anymore, we are not even allowed to have a voice anymore, we get shamed, and tagged as prejudiced. Isn’t this double standard, why raise the voice of a group of people by silencing others. Who says our opinions are wrong while yours can’t be, this isn’t fair play

What you do with your personal life is simply none of my business and what I choose to accept or reject is simply none of your business too. So if I say I can’t imagine a man being with a man, don’t call me homophobic, I just can’t imagine it.

Nobody should be shamed for their standard.