, 9 September 2011 (UTC) 
 ::::::Ah, the old "some of my best friends are...." defense! The problem is that we don't have a good word in English for "thinks that gays are pathetic sinners and believes government should treat them as criminals and third-class citizens unless they promise never to express their loves or expect to be treated as human beings or have the rights that we straights do"; so we tend to use "homophobic" as shorthand for that peculiar stance.   |   13:33