I afraid of homosexuality.

I know there are gays, I know there is homosexuality.

And their argument is that Jesus never talked about homosexuality.

Homosexuality is observed especially between intelligent species, for example, between monkeys.

Homosexuality is like... is like disease, and I'm afraid of disease. man

Acceptance of homosexuality is as low as two percent in some countries.

Even in purely non religious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty.

In the FPÖ Austrian populist party they said that homosexuality is a culture of death.

A more modern example comes from people who try to convince us that homosexuality is immoral.

Here's what Jesus said about homosexuality, and you open it up, and there's nothing in it.

I think homosexuality is illegal in 71 countries and in eight of these countries it is punishable by death.

The writer and commuter James Baldwin gave an interview in 1984 in which he was repeatedly asked about his homosexuality.

In some Eastern European countries, uh, where homosexuality is illegal, a ring on a woman's left thumb is considered an indication of her... proclivities.

They say it's an anomaly and also something unnatural, but they don't know that homosexuality is documented in detail in 500 species and it was registered in 1500.

Their concerts draw from their own communities, yes, but also from an older generation a generation that might be suspicious of homosexuality, but is nostalgic for its own music and the past it represents.

Also in the Bible, one sees that the death penalty was the accepted punishment for crimes such as homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, idolatry, talking back to your parents (Laughter) and picking up sticks on the Sabbath.

Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious leaders come together, they're arguing about abstruse doctrines or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against homosexuality or something of that sort.

So, it's about choosing the parts of the Bible about compassion, about tolerance, about loving your neighbor, as opposed to the parts about homosexuality is a sin, or intolerance, or violence, which are very much in the Bible as well.

In the book, I go over controversies such as this one, and a number of other hot buttons, hot zones, Chernobyls, third rails, and so on including the arts, cloning, crime, free will, education, evolution, gender differences, God, homosexuality, infanticide, inequality, Marxism, morality,

You see, we also learn that experts are located, are governed, by the social and cultural norms of their times whether it be the doctors in Victorian England, say, who sent women to asylums for expressing sexual desire, or the psychiatrists in the United States who, up until 1973, were still categorizing homosexuality as a mental illness.

Interestingly, what they also showed in a finding that we kept getting in our previous studies as well was that one of the strongest influences here is that individuals who are very disgust sensitive not only are more likely to report being politically conservative, but they're also very much more opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality and pretty much a lot of the socio moral issues in the sexual domain.