Choir singers step down after abuse from parishioner

seamus wrote: »

While I do understand that one can easily separate the enjoyment of music from the meaning of it, there's some level of cognitive dissonance required to stand and sing for the ceremonies of an institution which officially hates you and considers you second-class.

I'm expecting there's more to this than some random idiot sending messages. It's probably a small town and the guy is considered a "pillar of the community", so nobody calls him out on his crap. Hence why the two women can't just ignore him and are seemingly reluctant to make a complaint to the Gardai.

livedadream wrote: »

any link to back that statement up there mate?

The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual
orientation play in the formation of intense and visceral fear of homosexuals,
including self-reported homophobic attitudes, discriminatory bias, implicit
hostility towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay policies. Conducted by a
team from the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and the
University of California in Santa Barbara, the research will be published the
April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.


"Individuals who identify as straight but in psychological tests show a
strong attraction to the same sex may be threatened by gays and lesbians because
homosexuals remind them of similar tendencies within themselves," explains Netta
Weinstein, a lecturer at the University of Essex and the study's lead
author.


"In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are
turning this internal conflict outward," adds co-author Richard Ryan, professor
of psychology at the University of Rochester who helped direct the research.


The paper includes four separate experiments, conducted in the United States
and Germany, with each study involving an average of 160 college students. The
findings provide new empirical evidence to support the psychoanalytic theory
that the fear, anxiety, and aversion that some seemingly heterosexual people
hold toward gays and lesbians can grow out of their own repressed same-sex
desires, Ryan says. The results also support the more modern self-determination
theory, developed by Ryan and Edward Deci at the University of Rochester, which
links controlling parenting to poorer self-acceptance and difficulty valuing
oneself unconditionally.


The findings may help to explain the personal dynamics behind some bullying
and hate crimes directed at gays and lesbians, the authors argue. Media coverage
of gay-related hate crimes suggests that attackers often perceive some level of
threat from homosexuals. People in denial about their sexual orientation may
lash out because gay targets threaten and bring this internal conflict to the
forefront, the authors write.

livedadream wrote: »

huge difference between this

and this

livedadream wrote: »

but what has got to do with them singing...

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

What a petty little **** more, more concerned with BS rules and regulations than actually acting like a Christian.