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Hmcooper4 wrote: Killian Jones wrote: Feeling that LGBT lifestyle choices are morally wrong is like the very definition of homophobic. No. Phobia's are fear. Being afraid of homosexuals would be homophobia. A Homophobe would reject a person, or worse, once they found out they were LGBT. A Homophobe would be intolerant towards them.

As I said in a different post, my main complaint is not that they went the direction of the LGBT couple (This is a TV show on a secular network, and they are going to present stories that are socially relevant to the current culture), it's the way they did it. It did not feel like it was established and grown, it felt rushed. It felt thrown in. 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. That is not a knock on the LGBT aspect of the relationship, it is a critism of how the story was presented.

Someone else pointed out that fairy tales have always used the Love at First Sight plot. Yes, fairy tales have many times used that plot device, and there is usually something in the story that strongly supports that end, or builds the relationship before they reach the TLK part of the story. This particular story just did not have that vibe (at least not for me). 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. I understand what they were trying to do, I just personally think that it could have been done better, and I think they might have even done the LGBT community a disservice by rushing the story rather than building it.

Now, if anyone feels offended in any way, I apologize. My intent is not to put down LGBT. Well that still makes you prejudice against people who do not have the same sexual orientation as yourself, that's not much better than being homophobic.

As for the Red/Dorothy relationship I think most people are in agreement that it was very rushed. They could have done a much better job with it if they were to take a couple episodes to develop it instead of have the relationship be a throwaway episodic one. They turned True Love from something that was suppose to be extremely rare in season 1 and 2 into something that anybody can find within 12hrs tops of knowing someone.