Word: homophobiaã
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...said: “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.” And so it is that the worst angels of our nature—slavery and poverty, greed and corruption, war and genocide, racism, sexism, and homophobia??are routinely cloaked in the language of Scripture. This, I’ve come to understand, is the real perversion...
...homophobic, but the United States at large sure isn’t; and if the fear instilled in the closet cases on boredatlamont.com is any indication, Harvard as a whole may not be either (but that’s another topic altogether). My blockmates’ “homophobia?? wouldn’t be funny if there weren’t actually nutcases out there—or in here—who do want to commit violent acts against gay people; more importantly, though, it wouldn’t be funny if there weren?...
Arguably, the term “homophobia?? lacks semantic accuracy when it merely refers to an aversion to gays and lesbians instead of out-and-out fear. The queer rights movement has attempted to introduce more accurate terms—for example, heterosexism, which suggests a bias against queer people similar to the bias that sexism directs toward one sex. “Heteronormativity,” “biphobia,” and “transphobia” have been dismissed as products of a progressive movement with too much time on its collective hands?...
...While “homophobia?? was begotten on college campuses, it has spread throughout political circles as gay rights advocates came to realize branding their opponents “homophobes” was a convenient way to discredit them...
...Heteronormative” is a peculiar (some would say vapid) invention that does not yet pack the rhetorical punch “homophobia?? does, largely because the idea that underlies it is so absurd on the face of things...