Homophobia. A misleading label

[Anomalocaris]

Some of the nastiest toughs from history were bisexual or homosexual. The Spartans from perhaps the most pure warrior culture in history conceded the need to procreate, but otherwise deemed hetrosexuality unworthy and homosexuality the only fit orientation for a warrior. Japanese Samurais were very disproportionately homosexual, and so were the Mongols. Part of the terror of the Mongol conquest was the legend that the Mongol sodomized all prisoner of war as matter of policy. Alexander the Great was very much more on the homosexual side of bisexuality. Other than his mother he seemingly dealt with women for political reasons only. Caesar might be more hetrosexual than homosexual, but long before Cleopatra he did not shy from sexual dalliance with a King Mithradates to get what he wanted.

So maybe homophobes are aware of their relative inadaquacies and have good reason to fear homosexuals.

And looking at the behavior descibed in the NT as a whole, I'll be a monkey's uncle if the "son of god" didn't not suffer severely from repressed homosexuality amongst other what might be called emotional issues and sexual deviances.