Conservative Christians and other people who strongly object to homosexuality often take offense at this term, which had led to the use of the term heterophobia to describe those who manifest an antipathy to those who uphold heterosexuality as normative or exclusively valid. The term phobia being an irrational fear of something, nobody is afraid of homosexuals and nobody fears contracting homosexuality. | Conservative Christians and other people who strongly object to homosexuality often take offense at this term, which had led to the use of the term heterophobia to describe those who manifest an antipathy to those who uphold heterosexuality as normative or exclusively valid. The term phobia being an irrational fear of something, nobody is afraid of homosexuals and nobody fears contracting homosexuality. |