"Same sex attraction is homophobic." That's quite the contradiction considering that people who are against same-sex attraction are in fact the homophobic ones.

These statements remind me of something a friend of mine told me about a few weeks ago. She lives in a conservative country where they have restrictions on the types of books permitted (they have a department that pre-checks books). There's this one textbook that discusses different types of families and was just recently discovered to mention "same-sex marriage". There's a whole investigation going on about it at the moment to figure out how who's responsible for it slipping through the cracks. My friend works at one of the schools that had these books and she said they had to go through the books and blacken out all the sections that mentioned "same-sex marriage". Keep in mind, this is a country where you won't be killed for being gay but you will go to jail for being openly gay.

Anyway, I say all this because I find the parallels between the thoughts expressed in these tweets and the ideological leanings of this conservative country to be very concerning. These people against "same-sex attraction" would probably also be against these aformentioned textbooks and be in favour of the censoring of certain portions of those books. Yet, in the same breath, they would call themselves "liberal" and "progressive". It also makes me wonder if people in more progressive countries will eventually reach a point where they end up in jail (or in any other sort of legal trouble) simply for saying that they are "same-sex attracted" as opposed to "same-gender attracted". I used to think "that wouldn't ever happen" but, with the current state of things, I'm not so sure anymore.