Why are gays so intolerant of straight people

Whisper it gently, but Scotland is not as woke as Sturgeon and her coterie like to think. What if the ruling clique has been kidding itself? Become a spiked supporter. The latest trigger for our collective gnashing of teeth is SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes , who last week reiterated her belief that marriage should be exclusively for a man and a woman.

The irony, lost on the LGBT lobby, is this might not be a bad thing for gay people. David Cairns had actually died of pancreatitis. Or at least to a morality that does not involve constantly trying to challenge social norms. Lesley Riddoch , a self-professed LGBT ally and SNP intellectual luminary a role with surprisingly few entry requirements , wailed that she felt like she needed to sit down and cry.

As many a priest can attest. The real question gay groups should be asking is how can we try to find common ground with others. As historian Tom Holland argues in Dominion , most social-justice movements in the West have been inspired, unconsciously or not, by the Christian impulse to uplift the oppressed.

These activists have to battle just to be allowed freedom of association. So why did the leadership of the SNP fail to read the public mood so badly? Last week, five of her backers immediately pulled their support over her views, and the Greens briefed that a Forbes leadership would scupper any cooperation deal.

Homophobia often strains family and community relationships. Gay rights cannot be a zero-sum game where we take and everyone else gives. The demonisation of Kate Forbes shows that the bullied have become the bullies. Against them are an array of well-funded Muslim and Christian fundamentalists who openly describe gays as evil.

We gays were once the underdogs, a smart and liberal community that stood up for itself with dignity against a legion of hatchet-faced bigots and Bible-bashers. We made up for a lack of political influence by being poets, theatre directors and designers and okay, the occasional hairdresser.

These ghouls often claim that gay people are agents of a demonic struggle against Christianity or Islam. Social scientists attempting to explain why so many people hold negative feelings toward homosexual persons have tended to offer either theoretical speculations or empirical data, with little.

Homophobia puts pressure on straight people to act aggressively and angrily towards LGBTQ people. Homophobia causes youth to become sexually active before they are ready in order to prove they are "normal.". 34% of straight people said that they would be uncomfortable if their child learned.

The gay-liberation movement did not arise out of a vacuum. It also undoes the brave, careful work of gay activists in countries like Ghana, Egypt and Uganda, or the more than 60 other countries worldwide where homosexuality is still criminalised. Support for LGBTQ people in each individual situation either stayed the same or dropped since two years ago.

The funny thing is, Forbes and her attitudes are nothing new in the SNP. He even organised a privately funded referendum to oppose the change. One reason is that it has surrounded itself for the past decade with a veritable jerk-circle of LGBT activists who bear little or no resemblance to mainstream lesbians and gays, never mind the rest of Scotland.

For one thing, by challenging us, debate and disagreement sharpen our own arguments. Want to read spiked ad-free? In fact, engaging with our critics is more important than even that narrow self-interest. While the likes of Souter and Forbes are no cheerleaders for the gay community, they are not the ones promoting the medicalisation of young lesbians and gays in the name of trans rights.

A church spokesman then tried to rescue the situation by asserting that, even if the bishop had been mistaken in this case, gay sex was still fundamentally dangerous. Just over 80 percent of Americans surveyed said they knew someone who identifies as LGBTQ, and the survey found that an equal amount of non-LGBTQ Americans surveyed support equal rights for the.

Homophobia makes it hard to be close friends with someone of the same sex. Give gays rights, they say, and Christians or Muslims will be hunted from public life. That is not what citizenship of a shared polity is about. Now it seems this once-noble community of independent thinkers wants to gallop across Scotland looking for heretics and witches to burn.