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Slightly off topic, but towards the end, he mentions that:

"Though they experienced homophobia and struggled financially..."

This particular case aside, why is all negativity towards homosexuality grouped into homophobia? Is anyone who opposes homosexuality afraid of it (in a literal translation)?

The dictionary.com definition of the suffix phobia is:

"a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek ( hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense “dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element:"

What about folks approaching from a standpoint that has neither a dread of, nor an aversion towards homosexuals? Why are they called homophobic?