Back in 1972, psychologist Dorothy Riddle wanted a psychometric tool that would evaluate whether a person was homophobic or supportive of homosexuality. She developed what is known today as the Riddle Scale, a linear chart that determines if a person is ‘homophobic’ or ‘positive.’
Used in workshops and psychological lectures, it became popular in 1994 when it was published by the Minnesota Department of Education. Since then, it has been used by educational departments and healthcare organizations to determine if faculty or teaching staff is homophobic. And the results are surprising.
The scale is divided into two parts; anything to the left of centerline is homophobic; anything to the right of centerline is positive.
Homophobic
Revulsion: If you are repulsed by homosexuality, as I am, you are homophobic. Most people are, whether they admit it or not.
Pity: If you feel sorry for people who struggle with the sin of homosexuality . . . you guessed it. You are homophobic. I don’t know how they get fear (phobia) out of pity but that’s what she says.
Tolerance: If you are tolerant of homosexuality, you are of course, homophobic. Tolerance implies that you are tolerating something that you normally wouldn’t.
Acceptance: Acceptance implies that there is something to accept. If that’s you, sorry. Homophobic!
Positive
Support: You are supportive of LBGTQ+ causes, and agenda. You march in pro-gay parades and seek to strengthen laws that expand LGBTQ rights.
Admiration: You admire homosexuality for its virtues, such as elevated depression, diseases and the spiritual and emotional damage that it causes people.
Appreciation: You worship at the idol of diversity (most DIE officers are right here) and see LGBTQ+ as valuable.
Nurturance: This is the holy ground of the Riddle Scale, the ultimate positive. You believe that LGBTQ+ people are indispensible to our society. You can’t have a healthy society without this unhealthy lifestyle. You celebrate when the Supreme Court approves gay marriage and even light up the White House as a victory torch.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity officers have adopted a ‘positive’ view of LGBTQ, and—like the Riddle Scale—are helping to change heterosexual’s attitudes towards homosexuals. Or as the Bible says,
“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” (Romans 1: 26—28).
****
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:16)