Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Tim Cole <tcole AT adobe.com>]

Title: Re: [percy-l] gay marriage

> Walker never bought into the notion that gays were anything other than emotionally disturbed people and to that extent he remained what I would call mildly homophobic to the end.


I’d like very much to hear someone who likes/uses the term ‘homophobic’ to suggest a definition that’s constructive and useful. It seems to me to be a word constructed to muddy semantic waters and caricature those who have moral and teleological objections to homosexual behavior, and not an irrational fear of homosexuals.

I have a long time family friend, a psychologist, who uses the term more liberally than ketchup in his letters to the editor , but won’t define it for me. Drives me batty...