Thursday, June 01, 2006

Why Homophobes Rage

The Blog | Sam Seder: Explained: The GOP Obsession With Gays | The Huffington Post:
". . .In the book 'FUBAR: America's Right-Wing Nightmare,' which I co-wrote with Stephen Sherrill, the chapter 'I Hate Myself: Life As A Gay Republican,' examines the eerie pattern of the most vehement anti-gay Republicans turning out to be, well, gay.

Could it be that the reason they doth want to amend too much is really more about them than the constitution?

In our book, we quote a 1996 study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology by researchers at the University of Georgia. The subjects of the experiment -- all males describing themselves as exclusively straight -- were divided into homophobic and non-homophobic groups. They were then show videos of straight pornography and gay pornography, while their levels of arousal were measured by a penile plethysmograph.

The results? During the gay videos, nearly 80% of male homophobes produced what we like to call a 'Fristy'. What's more intriguing is in their own assessments of their arousal, the homophobes claimed to have none, even though the instruments showed otherwise.

And in the ten years since this study, the GOP has only grown more and more 'obsessed' with gay people. In fact, in updating this study, according to our calculations the percentage of current anti-gay GOP office holders who are actually gay 100%. (I should note that our results have a 3% margin of error, which means the number might really by either 97% or 103%. We're not even sure what that last number means -- that's a job for gay string theorists). . ."

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