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Line 1: − The term '''"homophobia"''' is used in two distinct but related ways. − − #As a catch-all term for "any opposition to homosexuality or [[gay rights]]." − #To refer to an irrational prejudice, hatred or fear related of homosexuality. − − Even in the "weak" formulation of 1), the term contains an implicit value judgement akin to referring to someone or something as [[racist]] or [[sexist]]. Some [[hate speech]] rules and laws have as their basis a view of homosexuality as benign, inborn and/or immutable like [[race]]. Using [[civil rights]] legislation as a model, they forbid any discrimination against homosexual persons. This includes the expression of opinions about homosexuality itself. − − Just as a [[speech code]] barring racism would forbid people to express the view that "blacks are mentally inferior", a speech code relating to homosexuality would forbid people saying that "gay sex is an abomination". − − ==Objections to the use of the term "homophobia"==
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''Homophobia'' is a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] term originally intended to portray principalled opposition to the [[homosexual agenda]] as an abnormal mental condition. It was introduced into scientific literature shortly before the American Psychiatric Association declassified its diagnosis of [[homosexuality]] as a [[mental illness]] in 1973. Recent research however, claims that among non-homosexual homophobes, no phobia exists, <ref>[http://www.cwfa.org/articles/674/CFI/cfreport/index.htmNew Study Says There’s No Phobia in ‘Homophobia’], Martha Kleder, CWA, 6/28/2002.</ref> and most homophobes are homosexual who suffer from "internalized homophobia". The is no agreement within the psychiatric and theraputic profressions on what the term actually means.
''Homophobia'' is a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] term originally intended to portray principalled opposition to the [[homosexual agenda]] as an abnormal mental condition. It was introduced into scientific literature shortly before the American Psychiatric Association declassified its diagnosis of [[homosexuality]] as a [[mental illness]] in 1973. Recent research however, claims that among non-homosexual homophobes, no phobia exists, <ref>[http://www.cwfa.org/articles/674/CFI/cfreport/index.htmNew Study Says There’s No Phobia in ‘Homophobia’], Martha Kleder, CWA, 6/28/2002.</ref> and most homophobes are homosexual who suffer from "internalized homophobia". The is no agreement within the psychiatric and theraputic profressions on what the term actually means.