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To: Moonman62
Homophobic shouldn’t even be a word.

I guess homophobic is supposed to mean an abnormal fear of homos.

17 posted on 09/17/2012 8:36:54 PM PDT by Isabel C.
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To: Isabel C.

“I guess homophobic is supposed to mean an abnormal fear of homos.”

But in practical parlance today, it means: Anyone who disagrees with a liberal.


18 posted on 09/17/2012 8:42:22 PM PDT by LaserJock
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To: Isabel C.

Not to sound scholarly, but from the Greek, “homos” means the same, and “phobos” means fear.

“Homophobic” in current use is Frankenslang. Properly parsed, “homophobia” would mean “irrational fear of those having the same qualities as oneself.”

Me, I’m not afraid of other conservative heterosexual G-d fearing gun owning FReepers.

;^)


35 posted on 09/17/2012 10:04:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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