How many times have you heard it: Christians are "homophobic" because--if they know the Bible--they condemn homosexual behavior.
Besides the idiocy of the term "homophobic" (how many people are afraid of sameness?), most of us have always known that throwing this term around is just a politically correct method of trying to deflect genuine criticism of an immoral and unhealthy practice.
But now LifeSiteNews reports on a study debunking this which was conducted by the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University and published in the latest edition of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
This is how the experiment worked:
The study involved 100 female participants who were scored for interest in religion. The participants were led to believe that they were working with another participant as a two person team. The participants received hand written notes from their ostensible team partners with personal disclosures. Half the notes disclosed that the writer was homosexual, the other notes did not disclose sexual orientation. Half the notes disclosed that the writer was engaging in sexually promiscuous behavior outside of marriage. This created four cases: homosexual sexually active team member, homosexual celibate team member, heterosexual sexually active team member and heterosexual celibate team member. The participants were then given two minutes to perform tasks that could benefit the team member or a third student.
Participants did not assist the homosexual team mate any less than the heterosexual one. They did help the promiscuous one less than the celibate one.
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