Science Daily: Homophobia is often caused by repressed same-sex attraction

 

Science Daily

is reporting that many homophobes are in fact suppressing their own same sex attraction due to strict parenting that forbade such behavior.

“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.”