Womp womp.
When you redirect to Wikipedia it brings you to the page for Homophobia, which has this little section for "heterophobia".
"Heterophobia" is not actually a thing, it is simply some straight people whining that they've got it really hard too because their son/daughter/child came out as gay and now they hate them just because they're not gay or some other twaddlespeak. Completely bypassing what is done in action under homophobia. Straight people aren't systematically discriminated against for their sexuality.
You need to recognize that language evolves. You
must understand this for this conversation to continue productively. Social phobias (homophobia, islamophobia, etc) are not the same as psychological phobias (arachnophobia, agoraphobia, acrophobia, etc). It does not suggest that someone is
paralyzed in fear by the thought of being around homosexuals, or Muslims, or whatever else have you
simply by the fact of their sexuality or religion. It denotes a hatred or prejudice and discrimination based on a social fear (fear of the unknown) that has little to no basis in rational fact.
"Heterophobia" is nonsensical and insulting in the face of daily evident homophobia in that the LGBT community's fear and/or caution around straight people is not irrational. It is not unfounded. It is born of the rational and necessary question: "Will this person harm me if they know I'm gay?"
The idea being explored in this thread is that of religion promoting a phobia that is obviously seen in nature but deemed unnatural.
So how can something being observed in nature between two consenting individuals of the same species be unnatural?
I have no disagreement there; I do not think homosexuality is unnatural. Which is why I'm not weighing in against that; I am addressing the misnomer of "heterophobia" and eventual list of other nonsensical "phobias against normal stuff" that's bound to come up whenever homophobia is mentioned.