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I am seeing this.being.thrown.aromasso much, not.only in US but here in Brazil.too,.that when someone try to.insult me.calling me homophobic, I will reply: "yes, with pride"

Seriously, homophobia was supposed to mean "strong fear or.aversion to homosexuals" not "opinion that homosexuals dislike"

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Correction, it's an irrational fear of homosexuals. You have absolutely no reason to fear them.

Often an irrational fear leading to anger and hatred. Or is it the other way around?

and if you do, you might be interested to know there's experimental evidence of a correlation between homophobia in men and physical arousal to male homosexual stimuli.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014

And what? The implication is that you'd like to throw your lot in with the "those who don't consider homosexuality to be right are really closet homosexuals" deception.

If such papers bear out (I've seen one such study but didn't read this one) then are we supposed to say "we should just follow our basic sexual stimuli to determine our ethics".

Riding the bus often gives me an erection, I must be bus-sexual; my right to marry a bus must be enshrined in law ...

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