Mr. McCance, the elected Vice President of the Midland School Board, in Arkansas, was caught posting some very harsh comments expressing his hatred of homosexuality, encouraging the suicide of gay children and enjoying the facts that gay folks give each other AIDS and die.
A few days later, pressured by his peers, the media and Stephen Blackwood, McCance publicly apologized for the poor speech he used on Facebook, and announced that he was stepping down from his position on the School Board.
Some might wonder why one can be so proactively homophobic. The subject of this article, McCance, during his apology, said he still believes that homosexuality is against the word of God. So does pastor Harry Craig, of Pleasant Plains Full Gospel Church who preaches that gays and lesbians are "thinking they're all right, and [God is] going to let them think that and go to hell for believing what they're doing is right."
So, McCance and the good pastor suggest that somehow, homophobia is excused, condoned or justified by the bible, or the word of god?
Not so, say I. As I always suspected, and it appears to be confirmed by scientific research, homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies. (Henry E. Adams, Lester W. Wright, Jr., and Bethany A. Lohr from Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia, 1996).
Like it or not.
Hatred is an exhausting feeling. Don’t throw good energy after bad!
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