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To: Poet who wrote (9929)4/23/2002 7:29:41 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (4) of 21057
 
I have said that I believe JCD's posts on the subject of homosexuality to be homophobic.

I don't think he actually has a phobia about homosexuals or homosexuality do you?

Of course the word homophobic is often used in such a way as to mean not someone who has a phobia but rather someone how hates these things, or discriminates against them, or even just thinks they are odd and or immoral. If that is how you use the word then I would say it does apply to JC because he has said he does find homosexuality to not be normal, and I think he said or at least implied that homosexual acts are immoral. However I don't really support the idea of using a xphobia to mean anything other then a phobia about x. It causes to much confusion and lack of precision in my opinion to use the word that way.

Tim
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