Homophobia and Conservative Religion Tow

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aS AB Bid Ben esNNE HT Homophobia and Conservative Religion: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding Christopher H. Rosik, PhD Link Care Center and Fresno Paciie University Lois K. Griffith, BA, and Zenaida Cruz, BA Frestio Pacific University “The lure of homophobia scales to consider the normative assumptions of rigous communities may result in findings tha are les useful in addressing this problem. In this study, 158 undergrads stems at a Christian university were surveyed, separately assessing aniudes toward celibate verut sexually active homosexual men and women, Rests of mall egresion analyses found that participants who emphasized a persen-behavioe dinction (an acepied tenet of conservative religious ideology) held more negative tudes toward lesbian women than those who were comparatively more accepting ac didnot emphasize such a distinction. However, participants who emphasized the person-behavio distinction held more postive tds toward gay’ men than those ho were comparatively more rejecting and did noe empha ‘veh 3

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