Or is this just a word used badly?

Homophobia

Homophobia: noun Latin homo – man, Greek phobos fear

This is a mule of a noun being the mixture of two languages as it is. Now there really was a time when a Greek fear of the Latin man was a sensible necessity as Rome had started to build its empire in the east. But Greece need not have feared as Rome merely assimilated Greek thought and culture for its own benefit.

In modern English usage the word has lost something of this meaning.

• literally: man-fear, the fear of man
• subjectively: the irrational fear that someone else hates you
• objectively: a state of mind imputed to those whose lifestyle is inimical to your own
• politically: an excuse for denying freedom of speech to those with whom you disagree

Cause: generally by a suppression of the fear of falling under the judgement of God, whose existence is denied, on account of the adoption of a particular lifestyle

καὶ μὴ φοβεῖσθε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποκτεννόντων τὸ σῶμα, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν μὴ δυναμένων ἀποκτεῖναι· φοβεῖσθε δὲ μᾶλλον τὸν δυνάμενον καὶ ψυχὴν καὶ σῶμα ἀπολέσαι ἐν γεέννῃ.

And fear not the ones killing the body who but the soul are not able to kill. Fear but more him being able both soul and body to destroy in hell Matthew 10:28 Copyright (c)1966, 1968, 1975, 1983 by the United Bible Societies