Thread:Hmcooper4/@comment-1916997-20160419051159

I'm not sure if you were planning on posting this somewhere else, but I see you removed it from the original thread it was on. If you want it deleted go ahead, but you seem like a pretty rational person, so I was going to give you my take. First, here is what you said:

No. Phobia's are fear. Being afraid of homosexuals, or what someone interprets as what they might represent, would be homophobia. A Homophobe would reject a person, or worse, once they found out they were LGBT. A Homophobe would be intollerant towards them.

Someone can consider actions to be morally wrong, but still have compassion towards the person of that persuasion. Unfortunatly, many people (on both sides of the argument) tend to be very intollerant of the other viewpoint.

As I said in a different post, my main complaint is not so much that they went the direction of the LGBT couple (This is a TV show on a secular network, and I have no allusions whatsoever that they will present stories that avoid areas that I find morally questionable), it's the way they did it. It did not feel like it was established and grown, it felt rushed. and I would make the same comments about other relationships on the show (*Cough*OutlawQueen*Cough*). Ruby and Dorothy's relationship feels very shoved in, rather than grown.

Yes, fairy tales have many times used the "Love at first sight" device, but there is usually something in the story that strongly supports that, or builds the relationship at least a bit before they reach the TLK part of the story. This particular story just did not have that vibe. and deliberately writing this to parallel Snow and Charming's TLK, when there was really nothing to back it up, just struck me as poor writing, or at least poor choices in writing.  