Recently the facilities in several British cities canceled evangelistic meetings with Franklin Graham because his statements against homosexual practice showed him to be a homophobe. I have written about this before, but one of the schemes of the left is to change the meaning of words and then to intimidate on the basis of these incendiary words and sentences. In this regard let us analyze the word homophobia or LBBTQ phobia. The meaning of phobia is often an irrational fear. So aquaphobia is a fear of water, or there is claustrophobia, a fear of closed small spaces, or fear of spiders, heights and even crossing bridges over water. So how might believers in the Bible be homophobes?
- Do they fear that homosexuals will convince them to become homosexuals?
- Do they fear that homosexuals will attack and rape them?
- Do they fear that homosexuals will sexually abuse their children? Some do fear this. There are both heterosexual and homosexual pedofiles.
- Do they fear homosexuals will come after them and kill them?
- Do they fear that the agenda will hurt the institutions of marriage and family and damage many people? Yes, I think some fear that.
The term is really an incoherent misnomer. Those who use cannot claim that believers want to take away their civil rights for work, services, and accommodations. That time is long past. Maybe the real issue is not that we fear homosexuals but that believes fear for homosexuals and the LGBTQ community, including fearing for them on the dangers of God’s judgment, the tragic results of sex-change surgery and hormonal therapy (well documented). We especially fear for children who are being raised with hormones and sex change encouragement.
Isn’t it really that the homosexuals and LGBTQ community fear traditional morality and communities that promote it and any idea of the judgment of God for sexual aberrations? But we have so far lost the language battle becasue the word homophobia has been given great social power. I propose that believers fight back and use the term morality-phobia for those in our society who fear and hate those who promote traditional morality and warn about God’s judgment.
Let’s start using this term. When accused, say, “No I am not” or “No we are not?” You are the one with a phobia, morality-phobia. Maybe in the back of their mind, they know it is wrong and they fear the judgment of God. They don’t want to be reminded.