Tom Cruise, Homophobic?
Is anyone really that surprised?

According to Bronson Pinchot (actor who worked with Cruise on Risky Business), Mr. Cruise repeatedly made homophobic remarks on that set.

As anyone shocked by that?  Really?

Because I'm not.

If you've managed to read anything by the so-called Church of Scientologly you know that they 'preach' there are tools to overcome anything negative, and one of those 'unnatural things' is homosexuality.

The thing is why would you need to overcome it unless it was something you feared in yourself?  Otherwise why not live and let live.

It is a cliche (but they are cliche's because they generally hold true) that there is nothing so closeted as a so called 'straight' man who makes homophobic slurs.    Anyone who is truly confident in his or her sexuality would not be threatened by the existance of gay people.  He or she would know it was not the way they were built but socializing, befriending and otherwise accepting gays as they are would not 'turn' them gay.

Nevermind that so many of Cruise's films contain blatant homo-erotic images.  Top Gun anyone?  Nor that the only truly believable relationships in nearly all of his movies are with a man or fellow men (Rain Man?)