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Daniel Peterson wrote:Moksha: "I can understand why the Church rolled back its policy:"

The Church didn't roll back its policy.

Moksha: "It was appeasing the outrage of its most conservative members."

It was clarifying.

Moksha: "the Church's homophobia"

That's a nonsense word. And clearly inapropriate in this case.

Genealogy wrote:Daniel: “That's a nonsense word.“

Homophobia is a nonsense word?

DCP wrote:It's a nonsense word.

Oxford wrote:Negative attitudes towards homosexual people and homosexuality which may be manifested in discrimination, hostile behaviour, or hate crimes. The term was adopted in 1972 by George Weinberg (b.1935), an American psychologist. The use of ‘phobia’ has been criticized as implying a pathological and irrational fear rather than a form of prejudice analogous to racism. The term is sometimes reserved for more extreme forms reflecting hatred and revulsion, the term heterosexism being favoured in other cases. Homophobic attitudes have been associated with conservative ideologies and authoritarian personalities. Extreme homophobia is often attributed to unconscious homosexual desires but it can also be due to ignorance or function as a means of gaining approval from a reference group. Institutional homophobia is reflected in laws, policies, practices, and the history of invisibility of gay people in the mass media. One theory is that the social function of homophobia is to enforce rigid gender distinctions (see also heteronormativity). Internalized homophobia refers to gay and lesbian people themselves adopting negative attitudes about homosexuality from socialization into a homophobic culture, leading to denial or self-hatred because they feel that they cannot live up to dominant cultural gender expectations.

Doctor Scratch wrote:Unsurprisingly, in the wake of the Church "walking back" its revised policies on same-sex behavior at BYU, the Mopologists are exulting. They really ought to restrain themselves, though, because their true colors are starting to shine through. Just check out this recent exchange on "SeN":
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Moksha: "I can understand why the Church rolled back its policy:"

The Church didn't roll back its policy.

Moksha: "It was appeasing the outrage of its most conservative members."

It was clarifying.

Moksha: "the Church's homophobia"

That's a nonsense word. And clearly inapropriate in this case.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.... Homophobia is a "nonsense word"? You'd think that, at this point, he'd know better than to say such things as that. But, no, he's asked about it and holds his ground:

Genealogy wrote:Daniel: “That's a nonsense word.“

Homophobia is a nonsense word?

DCP wrote:It's a nonsense word.

For the record, "homophobia" *is* a real word, as anyone with a functioning brain and basic literacy level ought to know. For example, consider this definition, from Oxford Reference, which is operated by Oxford University Press:

Oxford wrote:Negative attitudes towards homosexual people and homosexuality which may be manifested in discrimination, hostile behaviour, or hate crimes. The term was adopted in 1972 by George Weinberg (b.1935), an American psychologist. The use of ‘phobia’ has been criticized as implying a pathological and irrational fear rather than a form of prejudice analogous to racism. The term is sometimes reserved for more extreme forms reflecting hatred and revulsion, the term heterosexism being favoured in other cases. Homophobic attitudes have been associated with conservative ideologies and authoritarian personalities. Extreme homophobia is often attributed to unconscious homosexual desires but it can also be due to ignorance or function as a means of gaining approval from a reference group. Institutional homophobia is reflected in laws, policies, practices, and the history of invisibility of gay people in the mass media. One theory is that the social function of homophobia is to enforce rigid gender distinctions (see also heteronormativity). Internalized homophobia refers to gay and lesbian people themselves adopting negative attitudes about homosexuality from socialization into a homophobic culture, leading to denial or self-hatred because they feel that they cannot live up to dominant cultural gender expectations.

Surely we can all definitively agree that "homophobia" is indeed a real word, and not "nonsense." To call it "nonsense" is to be dismissive of some very serious things, as the Oxford definition shows. And bear in mind that this is being said in a context where LGBTQ+ LDS youth are committing suicide at alarming rates. I'm sure that these communities on the BYU campus are reeling in the wake of this, and yet here is this prominent BYU professor popping off, saying that homophobia is "a nonsense word."

In my view, this ranks right up there with his posting of lynching photos as a "joke." Quite shameful.

Doctor Scratch wrote:
Negative attitudes towards homosexual people and homosexuality which may be manifested in discrimination, hostile behaviour, or hate crimes. The term was adopted in 1972 by George Weinberg (b.1935), an American psychologist.

Philo Sofee wrote:I smell another caricature coming on.......and with a caption.......

Smokey wrote:Imagine losing everything, family, faith, the respect of your community and children, and being left to fish for compliments from apostates on a Friday night over some mediocre coloring. If the Kerry Shirts story isn’t a tragedy I don’t know what is.