"Homophobia"

At some time in the 1980s, someone decided that it would be clever to accuse anyone who had doubts about the wisdom of unlimited immigration into Britain of Xenophobia. Now xenophobia is a real and distressing mental illness; sufferers have an involuntary fear of strangers and can often end up being entirely housebound, but the condition has nothing whatsoever to do with people who have concerns about immigration. It was simply a stick which supporters of immigration picked up in order to beat their opponents into silence.
Homophobia, however, is a condition which was unknown to medical science until someone made it up. It is not even etymologically sound. The Greek word homos means ‘the same,’ so homophobia would logically mean fear of the same. If there were a word that meant an unreasoning hatred of homosexuals (and there isn’t) it would be something like misarsenokoitia. Once again, the word homophobia is used by the homosexual lobby to close down debate. - marprelate wordpress 2013/05/21/ homophobia-and-other-silly-made-up-words/