Homophobia is beneficial to many heterosexuals

"Negative Social Stigma: In today's world, epecially in many first world countries, 'homophobia' is quickly becoming synonymous with 'bigotted'" This is highly subjective in which makes your rebuttal invalid. My argument is not subjective. Homophobia Undoubtedly benefits heterosexuals for the reasons I Stated In Round one Social stigma depends on your social environment . All of my friends are homophobes. I don't have any problems and I'm very homophobic. Also, I'm intelligent enough to debate anyone who disagrees and shut them down As an atheist, I would simply mention some studies that shows homophobia is rooted in unwanted sexual advances. How could they logically downplay a person for avoiding unwanted sexual advances? People usually surround themselves with like minded people. Therefore, your claim is irrelevant and it does not debunk my claim. The fact remains, homophobes are less likely to be friend gays in which prevents unwanted crushes from gays, unwanted sexual advances from gays, and discomfort in friendships with gays. At the end of the day, it's beneficial to homophobes. " as far as public perception is concerned. Part of being successful and respected is being a person worthy of respect, in the public's eyes. Many people in this world refuse to respect people they classify as biggots and actively seek to "knock the bigot down a few ranks". By practicing homophobia, one has the disadvantage of signficant credibility and face loss" You're basically saying homophobes could face discrimination and bigotry because of their personal views. It's against the law to discriminate against people in a workplace because of their personal beliefs. So, the person who does the disrespecting faces risk of losing, not the homophobe. I wish someone would discriminate against me because of my personal views. Again, this is highly subjective... the person who does the disrespecting usually gets the short end of the stick in my environment and that includes workplaces. A person can easily get fired for disrespecting someone at work place. The homiphobe and his personal views are protected under the employment discrimination policy What makes you think homophobes would even tolerate disrespect? I wouldn't. What you see on youtube usually doesn't represent what's really going on. Just last week I saw some homophobic boys clowning a boy for looking gay. I didn't see anyone disrespecting them. I called a gay men the F word the other day for staring at me. Nobody said a word. Even if they had of said something, I could have debated them and won. I'm an atheist. I'm not an easy win even if a homophobe work with a bunch of Even if a homophobe worked with a bunch of gay militants, homophobia can be silent. Homophobes dont have to confess to being homophobic to practice homophobia. I work with gays but I would never befriend them or hang out with them. I still hate them. If they ever made sexual advances towards me, I would get there a gay butts fired FAST and laugh about it because I hate gays. Also, discriminating against a person at a place of employment because of their personal views is in fact bigotry. Not getting a promotion because of personal views is discrimination. The company will be risking a major lawsuit. "Is in many cases against the law: Many companies have included "sexual-orientation" under their non-discrimination" "clauses. In fact, it is very difficult to find a large US company these days that does not include "sexual orientation" as a protected class" This is a straw man fallacy. I didn't mention anything about discrimination or breaking the law. Refusing to befriend or hang out with gays is perfectly legal in all circumstances but it is considered homophobia. A part of the definition of homophobia is 'disgust' of gays or aversion. "Additionally, great movements are taking place to change this protection at the federal level. By practicing homophobia, you are discriminating against gays in some fashion, which can be against the law. The disadvantage here: Reduces employment opportunities in most every field" This is a straw man fallacy. Again, practicing homophobia doesn't require breaking the law or discrimination. Refusing to befriend or hang out with gays is considered homophobic. "Can damage friendships with other non-homophobic people" It could be Vice versa so your claim means nothing. Non homophobic people can damage their friendship with homophobes by being intolerant of their views. Also, your claim is subjective. It depends on who values the friendship the most. if anyone has a problem with my homophobia, they can see the door because I wouldn't like them after that anyways. "By stating that you would avoid 'unwanted friendship issues', but you failed to consider that a homophobic attitude can directly cause friendship issues with straight friends who do not support that ideology" Again, this is another subjective claim. It depends on who needs who. I don't want to be friends with anyone who has a problem with my homophobic views. I initiated ending romantic relationships. if a woman is pro gay, she might be secretly gay so I don't trust her. "It's worth mentioning that gay-sympathizing straights outweigh homosexuals themselves, meaning you're actually more likely to experience friendship issues should you practice homophobia" Again, this is another subjective claim. What makes you think non-homophobes won't create friendship problems by Being bigoted towards a person because of their homophobic views? It also depends on who values the friendship more. I personally devalue any friend who has a problem with my homophobic views. I wouldn't care about them anyway "It's also necessary to make a point here about my opponent's other two reasons for homophobia, regarding unwanted sexual advances/crushes. Crushes and sexual advances are often independent of whether friendships have formed or not" This is not true. According to gay teen expert 'Ellen Friedrich', the majority of straight crushes happens with a gay person who has become friends with a non-homophobic heterosexual of the same sex. "There is also a considerable stigma against gay men approaching straight friends, sexually. While it still happens, this stigma makes it so straights are much more likely to be approached by woman friends than gay friends" According to gay teen expert Ellen friedrich, gays find ways around this. Gays usually befriend heterosexuals first. In many cases, they become best friends. In many cases, the gay person is still in the closet. They intentionally get close to their crush until they can be honest. I'm glad you mentioned this. This is the very reason why homophobia is beneficial to heterosexuals. Gays are less likely to even come out of the closet to a homophobe. They are better off finding a gay friendly crush. Better yet, they probably wouldn't befriend the homophobe in the first place because they know he would hate who they really are. This ultimately saves the homophobe from issues concerning gay crushes, sexual advances and friendship issues. That's why homophobia serves as a friend filtering system. It filters out all the closet gays. It's completely beneficial. In conclusion, your argument is filled with subjective claims and straw man fallacies. Your argument does not change the fact that homophobia serves as a friend filtering system to filter out all the closet gays, militants gays, gay activists ect. in which ultimately benefits to heterosexual.