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- noun Plural form of
homophobe .
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Examples
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Maggie Gallagher is wrong about gay marriage, but the reason she’s wrong isn’t that very many people who oppose gay marriage are just plain homophobes; it’s that she’s almost certainly mistaken about the empirical cultural effects of recognizing gay unions.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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Maggie Gallagher is wrong about gay marriage, but the reason she’s wrong isn’t that very many people who oppose gay marriage are just plain homophobes; it’s that she’s almost certainly mistaken about the empirical cultural effects of recognizing gay unions.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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'The anti-Semites, the psychotic misogynists and the homophobes are the Islamists.'
Martin Amis is right! GayandRight 2007
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'The anti-Semites, the psychotic misogynists and the homophobes are the Islamists.'
Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007
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I will put money on the fact this child will have more advantages more love than many of the so called homophobes who spend more time worrying about others than caring 4 there own children.
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The homophobes are the real victims of violence, according to NOM:
The Bilerico Project 2010
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We're tired of being called homophobes because we believe in the sanctity of traditional marriage.
TrishAndHalli.com 2010
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Thus allowing them to be awarded undeserved protections special laws and regulations others simply don't have nor need to supposedly protect them from we so called homophobes and the likes, a deragatory, which now looks like bunk just as many of us have always maintained it always was.
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Social, cultural, and moral change is hard, and in my experience, when I get a bit too angry at the pace of someone else's capacity for "moral development," or when I get a bit too self-righteous about how morally developed I am relative to those "homophobes," it is because I am actually unconsciously disappointed in my own efforts in working to make this a more just society.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: Leviticus Loses: The Inevitability of Equal Rights for Homosexuals 2010
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Social, cultural, and moral change is hard, and in my experience, when I get a bit too angry at the pace of someone else's capacity for "moral development," or when I get a bit too self-righteous about how morally developed I am relative to those "homophobes," it is because I am actually unconsciously disappointed in my own efforts in working to make this a more just society.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: Leviticus Loses: The Inevitability of Equal Rights for Homosexuals 2010
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