Relatively faster performance when the task involved moving the manikin toward the gay male couple was taken as a sign of implicit attraction, rather than aversion,
toward homosexual men.
Not exact matches
These limitations and complexities aside, the researchers concluded that their findings provide more evidence consistent with the idea that «some
men high in homophobia indeed have a sexual interest
toward homosexual stimuli, whereas others do not» and that they «provide a better understanding of the psychological processes involved in the processing of erotic gay material among
men high in homophobia...».
«Homosexuality refers to relations between
men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction
toward persons of the same sex... Tradition has always declared that «
homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»
Yet if Colorado's amendment has no basis other than animosity
toward homosexuals, it is difficult to understand what rational grounds might exist for anti-sodomy laws, or, for that matter, laws restricting marriage to
man and woman.
The Court moved a long way
toward making
homosexual conduct a constitutional right, adopted the radical feminist view that
men and women are essentially identical, continued to view the First Amendment as a protection of self - gratification rather than of the free articulation of ideas, and overturned two hundred years of history to hold that political patronage is unconstitutional.