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"Homophobic" is an epithet often used to demonize those who oppose homosexual behavior on religious principles. To accuse people of homophobia simply because they oppose homosexual behavior is bigotry, just as much as it is for others to accuse people who engage in homosexual behavior of wanton immorality.

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