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:Weinberg claims homophobia is a mental illness.
: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)
:*''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)
::RobS, I was addressing a statement that said "The term was invented to impugn and slander opponents of homosexuality." I don't know whose statement that was. I provided a citation that supports some things that some people have said. But please look clearly at what it does and does not support.
:::The statement has been made that the term "homophobia" is used as a tool by gay-rights advocates to further their cause. Well, I think Herek can be fairly described as a gay-rights advocate and indeed, here is a gay-rights advocate saying "His term became an important tool for gay and lesbian activists, advocates, and their allies." OK.
:::It does ''not'' say that it was '''invented for that purpose.''' Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but the passage I quote from Herek does '''not''' say that.
:::And it says that it was a tool "'''for''' gay and lesbian activists, advocates, and their allies." It does '''not''' say that was a tool for "impugning and slandering" opponents. Slander, in particular, is a pretty strong word with a reasonably specific meaning.
:::Please be clear about the distinction between these statements. They are not the same.
::::*"It has been a useful propaganda tool which gay-right activists have used to advance their cause."
::::*"It has been widely used by gay-rights activists to impugn their opponents."
::::*"It was invented to impugn opponents of homosexuality."
::::*"It was invented to impugn and slander opponents of homosexuality."
:::::[[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 05:39, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
==Proposed compromise==
==Proposed compromise==