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→A reference that doesn't say what the article says they say: Weinberg says homophobia is an illness
:*''With that one word, Weinberg neatly challenged entrenched thinking about the “problem” of homosexuality.''
:*''With that one word, Weinberg neatly challenged entrenched thinking about the “problem” of homosexuality.''
:The word was invented to make "antigay" attitides (as Herek describes) "abnormal", exactly at the time the mental disease of homosexuality was declared "normal". [[User:RobS|RobS]] 21:45, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
:The word was invented to make "antigay" attitides (as Herek describes) "abnormal", exactly at the time the mental disease of homosexuality was declared "normal". [[User:RobS|RobS]] 21:45, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
:Weinberg claims homophobia is a mental illness.
:*''Of course, any answer to the question of how an illness develops,( and homophobia is an illness, no doubt about that) has to be incomplete. What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.'' [http://www.gaytoday.com/interview/110102in.asp] [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:04, 6 May 2007 (EDT)