My answer to Peter Espeut's rubbish on Homophobia Exposed

Friday December 21 we saw an article penned by Catholic Priest Peter Espeut and the madness that lies between his ears coming forth, here is the article firstly:

Homophobia Exposed!

Peter Espeut

I must congratulate the gay lobby for conducting one of the slickest and most comprehensive public-relations campaigns I have ever seen.

In their struggle to remake the world in their own image, they have taken on every social and political institution, including the family, the school, the Church and the State. By dressing up their cause as one of 'human rights' and 'justice', they have managed to capture much of the discourse, and make gains in supposedly sensible places such as Europe and the United States of America. Even the Episcopal Church has lost its way.Describing an element of their strategy in my column last week, I wrote: "The gay lobby abuses all those who disagree with their lifestyle by branding them as mentally ill, as 'homophobic' - a word which they have concocted."

In his column last Sunday, 'The 'facetiest' red man in Jamaica' (not referring to me, by the way), Gordon Robinson, wrote: "By the way, Peter, 'homophobia' is very much a real word and a real worldwide disgrace. It's not 'concocted'. Look at the Oxford Dictionary."Gordon is usually more perceptive. The Oxford Dictionary contains words in use, whether concocted or properly derived. My point is that the word 'homophobia' has been specifically invented as part of the campaign to 'normalise' the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lifestyle, by asserting that persons who disagree with it are psychologically disturbed.

WORDS AND MEANINGS

'Phobia' in Greek means 'irrational fear of', and 'homo' comes from the Greek word 'homoios', which means 'same', as opposed to 'heteros', which means 'different'. The word 'homosexual' refers to persons of the same sex (gender), while heterosexual refers to persons of different gender.

'Homophobia' then would mean 'an irrational fear of sameness', which is meaningless. What humans actually fear is people who are different from them (heterophobia?). 'Homophobia' is a word (poorly) concocted as a campaign slogan intended to demean straight people who believe that homosexuality is not a lifestyle to be considered normal.The word 'homophobia' was coined by gay activist George Weinberg in the 1960s to refer to heterosexual men's fear that others might think they are gay. In his 1972 book Society and the Healthy Homosexual, Weinberg used the word 'homophobia' differently, as a personality profile to describe the psychological aversion to homosexuality. He describes the concept as a 'medical phobia', proposing that those who harbour prejudice against homosexuals are suffering from a psychological malady, an irrational state of mind. There is no doubt that the intention is to brand all people of conscience (including Christians, Jews and Muslims) who genuinely believe homosexuality to be an aberration as mentally ill.
Medically, there is no such phobia, but the concocted word has caught on, and those who use it - like Gordon Robinson - are unwittingly buying into the LGBT campaign. Intolerance towards gay people there certainly is, and a real worldwide disgrace it certainly is! But worldwide mental illness? No!

But give credit where credit is due: it has been an effective slogan.

'eye-for-an-eye' approach

If the cause of the LGBT lobby is just, and rational, they should be able to advance their cause through the use of reason, avoiding abusing their opponents in the same manner as gay people are abused. Manufacturing abusive words such as 'homophobia' is the sort of 'eye-for-an-eye' approach that will make the whole world blind.But the LGBT PR campaign is one of abuse, where they attack the messenger rather than trying to refute the message. Since religion (not just Christianity) is the main opponent of the normalisation of the LGBT lifestyle, the goal is to destroy and discredit religion, to demean the noble (if embattled) institution of marriage, and to redefine 'the family' in their own image.

George Davis, in a well-researched column ('Is Jamaica ready for the 'coming out' party?' Gleaner, December 12, 2012), demonstrates how "homosexuality is now firmly mainstream after years of strategic effort to have it permeate popular media". He writes: "But how did we get here? How did homosexuality wriggle its way into the mainstream, to be front and centre everywhere we look? The answer is startlingly simple: television." By first capturing Hollywood, the LGBT lobby is winning the media war.But I disagree with George on one point: He calls the LGBT victory an "immutable reality". The LGBT public-relations campaign (posing as a campaign for 'human rights' and 'justice') can be easily exposed and discredited as irrational and illogical and nonsensical. But if no one consistently answers and refutes these foolish arguments, people may believe they are true.

Peter Espeut is a sociologist and Roman Catholic deacon. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com.

ENDS

Normally I do not respond this kind of garbage these days but when one is going to challenge the struggle in this manner while using the very homophobia to lace the article and then discount the value of the lives lost over the years all because of fear we are on a slippery slope with these religious zealots who use sanctimonious crap to push their hate. 

my answer to Peter Espeut's rubbish  .... 

"Homosexuals didn't capture Hollywood they were always there but you were in a church pew somewhere for the most part while the real world passes you by. Does Rock Hudson ring a bell?

Interesting you're part of a religious group that killed free thinking women and choose to continue to enforce an absolute monarchical system in the modern world while relegating women as back burners not to take up leadership positions ..... wow!!! talk about impositions. Lest we forget the horrible challenges England had to go through to get out from under Rome while your Church had Spain in the palm of their hands executing Protestants in the name of God ....... Protestant revolution indeed ....... Hurray for Elizabeth R 1

Concoctions eh?

The Council of Nicea linked to your Catholic order who supposedly decided when we celebrate Easter, who were to be published in the Bible as know it and the very Christmas holiday we are about to have in the coming days. The rejection certain of certain gospels etc yet pederasty and other types of open same sex relations were very much apart of Roman culture and the the Greeks from which you quoted "homoios" (excluding anal rape as humiliation) Was St Paul's condemnation via the Romans on his aborted visit to Corinth a concoction as he did not understand the difference between exploitive same sex activities versus long term monogamous healthy same sexed unions? 

The word "Homosexual" did not arrive in or near our language until 1868 when it was first used in Prussia now known as Germany under the infamous paragraph 145 legislation which the very points we are using today of privacy and consent were postured in the one of the first pieces of progressive legislation dealing with homosexuality.

Quietly keeping paedophilia in your Catholic faith under raps before dealing with the pyshco-sexual issues arising from forced celibacy and you're worried about consenting adults? that's a laugh.

Who says gay people for the most part want to procreate? and we can if we want to by various means including surrogacy then again in the name of heterosexism/ procreation what a fine job has been done when people like you drive in your vehicles passing the homeless, wind-shield wipers, your silence on the children in lock-ups  the rapes, the thousands of missing kids and you are worried about same gender lovers and children, probably we should be allowed to adopt and see how best to alleviate the problems and DO NOT tell me that homosexuals who raise children are going to make them gay as that is NOT TRUE as evidenced globally. 

Oh! you have no children, oh dear!!!! .......... childless yet worries about procreation, ugh, do you masturbate regularly or is that a sin too? 

And prey tell what about those priests who do each other in the rectory or hide under the guise of the cloth while enjoying the company of men to satisfy their same sex urges?

Besides your are late (yet again) on many fronts, same sex couples can produce an embryo from the selected stem cells of both partners, the catch is however you need a surrogate mother to carry it to birth and that can be easily arranged simply via a contract or agreement usually for secure couples who can prove they are financially secure in raising a child or children.

Homosexuality is more than just how we have sex .......... idiot!!!!! GET YOUR HEAD OUT our bedrooms or breaking your neck to peek through the keyhole to figure out who pushes what into where.

So the umpteen numbers persons who have simply been profiled or perceived to be gay and end up dead, dislocated, made homeless, becoming asylum-seekers elsewhere for safety or chopped up were not valued lives or means nothing to you (a man of the cloth) the fact that you seemed more worried about a word and "concocted" motives in your own mind than the actual fear or loathing of persons simply because they express themselves differently than you, what were those persons reflecting, give us a word what those perpetrators of violence or stigma were and are doing towards those victims?

Your piece reflects the sad state of affairs some persons are in locally when it comes to tolerating difference which is the bigger picture without having to go down a path of the very fear that is homophobia itself and that homosexuals are out to "homosexualize" everything else ............do you think we are contagious?

Homosexuality - A Biological reality

Homophobia - a Lifestyle choice

Your choice is clear as reflected in this piece.

Stick to the environmental issues where your expertise lies.