Would you be with someone who says being gay is unnatural?

[joliejoleen]

This man that I've been seeing thinks that being gay is unnatural. He wouldn't go out in the street and protest against gay people or ever attack them. He just thinks that being gay is unnatural and doesn't want his children to grow up thinking being gay is okay because it isn't. Would you ltb?

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Your "partner" will pass on his bigoted views to your children - would you really be happy with that???

Sadly it’s children with parents like arusedmoose’s partner that make the lives of other children hell.

Don't date homophobes op
Shouldn't even be a question

It’s not like I’m going to dump my boyfriend based on one opinion that is irrelevant to our lives together

@Arusesmoose Your boyfriend is stupid, bigoted, unkind, and lacking in critical thinking skills and you don’t think that’s relevant to your life together?

I suspect you must have quite different relationship standards to many people on this thread...

@Arusedmoose
Typo!

Why would anyone be happy to date a horrible, homophobic arsehole? Surely means you're also an arsehole who clearly doesn't care much about others

"Doesn't affect me so I don't give a shit" is a bloody horrible attitude to have

@SimonJT

Sadly it’s children with parents like arusedmoose’s partner that make the lives of other children hell.

It really is

Closet case.

@TinselAndKnickers

Well said

I would find it very relevant to my life. I want to have children (OK in real life I do have children) and I never want to raise my children in a household where being gay is not considered okay.

I don't care if somebody thinks it's natural or not, but it would massively bother me that he "doesn't want his children to grow up thinking being gay is okay because it isn't."

No way would I stay with him. His attitude is vile

No, for 3 reasons.

1. Im bi. It's personally insulting.
2. He is a bigot.
3. He is presumably a bit thick using such a fallacy to support his position.

Nope. Nope I wouldn't.

Runkle, there’s some evidence that you could be right in suggesting that he’s in the closet. I recall an interesting experiment where men were wired up to monitors while viewing gay porn. The men with the greatest signs of physiological arousal were the most extreme homophobes! I suppose it’s a case of “he doth protest too much”, trying to suppress his own fear that he might be gay himself.

Why do you even need to ask? How can you consider Being with someone like this. Someone who'd go so far as to basically shame their own child if they were gay.

Kick it to the kerb where it belongs.

Nope, I couldn't be with someone who held those views.

@Babdoc

Finding a gay man who hasn’t experienced several straight men in less than straight scenario’s is like finding a needle in a haystack.

No absolutely not.
It would make me question what other discriminatory views he holds. For example are those with disabilities unnatural? People of other faiths? People of colour?
Someone who is as close minded and offensive as that, allows homophobia to perpetuate, and that is just as wrong as going out and attacking a gay person on the street.
It would also make me wonder if he was gay himself and was trying to hide ...

Babdoc, agreed. Its the first thing I thought if when I saw the thread title.

If you have to ask then you know the answer already OP.

But no, there's no way I'd stay. I'd feel repulsed.

And what if your children were gay???

By the way, the 4.5% statistic is complete bollocks given that 45% of gay people are not out according to research.

Run now before it's too serious
It's a shitty view but at least you found out early

In short, no. Absolutely not. Non-negotiable.

I would end the relationship over this.

Nope, in fact I once walked out on date when they said almost this exact thing.

No. Couldn't put up with someone so ignorant. Same goes to racists.