What does “homophobia” really mean?
Dante and Homophobia
Rick Hills, PrawfsBlog, 8.12.2008
By “homophobic” disapproval, I mean disapproval of others’ desires motivated by fear that one shares in those desires. The disapproval of others serves as what Freud would call a “counter-attitude,” a way of repressing one’s consciousness of what one shares with the object of disapproval. Such disapproval, therefore, can serve its phobic function only if the disapproving persons want to believe that they lack the desires that they condemn in others.
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What can man do to us? Fear God. Homosexuality is an abomination.