IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED IN CERTAIN QUARTERS THAT THE MORE BLATANTLY OBNOXIOUS THE HOMOPHOBIA GETS, you can expect the messengers thereof to be, perhaps, latent homosexuals themselves.

(As in being, perhaps, homosexual ... yet unwilling to come to terms with the possibility thereof, perhaps out of fear that any revelations thereof might cause scandal or otherwise undermine public confidence or trust in the messenger.)

Such a likelihood has been suggested in the case of Rev. Fred "Westboro Baptist Church" Phelps, himself rather notorious for his "educational" protests @ the funerals of Americans killed in ur-RAHOWA action (the which Westboro sees as Divine Judgement Upon America for Tolerating Homosexuals and Homosexuality, in turn Conspiring to Undermine Our Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty and Soverign Identity).

Maybe it was time to raise the likelihood thereof in the case of GOP Presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee, considering recent foot-in-mouth pronouncements suggesting that homosexuality leads, in due time, to bestiality (cf. innumerable jokes over the generations suggesting that the main reason Baptists fear the latest fads is "because it might lead to dancing").

IMHO, Your Correspondent is unaware of any carefully-researched, peer-reviewed studies suggesting an interconnexion between homosexuality and bestiality, howbeit remote. (If, reader, you are aware of any such studies coming from credible channels, please let me know.)

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IN ANY CASE, BESTIALITY SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH ZOOPHILIA, which are oft mistaken for each other--as in:

• Bestiality being the actual act of actus coitu with one of another species, usually mammalian; and
• Zoophila being erotic arousal or stimulation brought on by pictures or video of animals engaged in mating activity or behaviour.

Not to mention homosexuality itself likely to be confused with:

• transvestism (dressing up in clothing and/or otherwise displaying behaviours and mannerisms "not belonging to his or her sex");
• transsexualism (engaging in heterosexual and homosexual relationships on a regular basis); and
• hermaphroditism (a rare genetic mutation which results in persons thus afflicted having male and female characteristics in the same person, no doubt inspiring plenty of weird fantasies in the prepubescent not unlike the Carl and Hoodsey subplot of As Told by Ginger, if you still remember that series).

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AS IF THE DEFENCE OF HOMOPHOBIA BEING THAT OF FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM wasn't illogical-sounding enough (as in one being conditioned by the other, and that the two are mutually interrelated), perhaps it was time to ask:

• How many of the world's developed countries having socioeconomic models and policies based on free-market capitalism have formal policies and/or mandates tending to outright fear and loathing of, not to mention contempt for, homosexuality and homosexual behaviour?
• Is there a valid justification for such officially-sponsored homophobia being necessary to maintain "socioeconomic order and stability"?
• Would such policies include referring real or suspected homosexuals to psychiatric hospitals for "reparation therapy" or other discredited pseudomedical techniques to "cure" homosexuality and "condition" such along Pavlovian models towards "healthy" heterosexuality?
• Do same policies amount to, in effect, blacklisting homosexuals from any right to earning a livelihood, receiving social welfare benefits, or exercise of civil rights? What prevents the regime(s) in question from openly acknowledging as much?
• Is such a mindset, in effect, nothing short of a sentence of shunning to the point of emigration being seen all too often as the last and only option such homosexuals have (yet unable to come up with funds to effect such under more normal channels, thus prompting applications for seeking refugee status based on "fear of persecution" claims)?
• Was "Divine Revelation" used to justify such policies of outright contempt for the epicene?

Answers as are logical, factually-based and can be verified can be left in the comments section. Remember, though, to avoid using the Seven Dirty Words and variants thereof in same, under pain of their deletion.