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So apparently I can now offend homosexuals by calling them homosexual.
1 posted on 07/06/2007 4:19:19 PM PDT by tuesday afternoon
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To: tuesday afternoon

Homosexual is the correct, descriptive term. If these little drama queens don’t like it they can kiss my butt.

Er, wait a minute, skip that last part.

They can take a flying leap at the moon.


52 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:50 PM PDT by Felis_irritable (Dirty_Felis_Irritable...)
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To: tuesday afternoon
i just used the word, "homosexual," yesterday... i like to say it the way Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke on Designing Women) used to say it: "homosekshel."

btw--i use the word Asian instead of oriental... and i use black instead of African American because i'm not always sure if the person to whom i am referring is actually African American...

54 posted on 07/06/2007 4:37:15 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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Second, the words "homo" and "sex." Both words connote something negative, or at least something that shouldn't be spoken out loud, to a lot of Americans.

Weird. 'Homo' just means 'same,' like in homogenized milk. As for 'sex', it's the faggots who choose to define their entire being by where they like to stick their Kuciniches. It's nobody else's fault that they trumpet their erotic fetishes so loudly that nobody can avoid knowing about them.

56 posted on 07/06/2007 4:37:32 PM PDT by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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The nuance of words changes over time.

I vote for calling them "nuanced."

57 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:31 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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To: tuesday afternoon

personally, i do not like what the homosexuals have done to the word, “gay.”


59 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:42 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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Thanks for posting this. I had no idea the word homosexual was offensive.

I’m going to use the word homosexual at least 10 times a day from now on.

They’re not going to obscure language further on my watch.


60 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:47 PM PDT by Lorianne
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The author's picture as linked on his blog

Gosh, I would never have known his orientation.

61 posted on 07/06/2007 4:39:34 PM PDT by Menehune56 (Oderint Dum Metuant (Let them hate, so long as they fear - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)))
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Hey, John! You’re a homosexual. Are you also oriental?


63 posted on 07/06/2007 4:40:41 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Sort of better than Gore or Kerry, but that's about it.........)
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To: tuesday afternoon
A sexually active person is one of three possible inclinations.

Heterosexual
Bisexual
Homosexual.

None of these terms is archaic.

And my advice to the writer of this misguided article is if what you do embarrasses you. STOP!

64 posted on 07/06/2007 4:41:26 PM PDT by A message
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If you can’t stand the heat (being called gay and homosexual) then get out of the kitchen.


65 posted on 07/06/2007 4:41:30 PM PDT by TDA2
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To: tuesday afternoon

Would Rump Ranger be okay?


66 posted on 07/06/2007 4:42:24 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit (There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
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To: tuesday afternoon
John Aravosis is the lying sack of crap who deliberately spread false information about Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and attempted to organize a campaign to harass the executives of Paramount Pictures Television until they agreed to cancel her 2000 television talk show before it had aired once.

Schlessinger had for years referred on her radio program to homosexuality as "a biological error," which, of course, IT IS. It defies logic to believe that there is not an error if a body designed to engage in the reproductive process has a brain that resists desiring it. But Aravosis created a website -- StopDrLaura.com -- in which he insisted that Schlessinger referred to homosexuals as "biological errors," and thus was suggesting they are sub-human.

Here is what Aravosis posted to a USENET board the day after StopDrLaura.com went online:


1. Call Paramount Chairman Kerry McCluggage in Los Angeles at [redacted], and ask your friends to call too! This is the DIRECT LINE to his office and they can't change the number without losing all his business contacts. If they try passing you call to a voice mail or another person, don't let them - demand that they take a message for you. Tell them that you are outraged about Paramount's plan to launch the Dr. Laura TV show and demand that they treat the glbt community with respect. We need to ensure that his staff is busy ALL DAY LONG taking complaints. (Does anyone have other phone numbers for McCluggage or his fax number?)

2. Email Paramount Chairman McCluggage. We found his direct personal email address - send lots of email to: kerry_mccluggage@paramount.com - and send this email address to all of your friends! Put something that sounds business-like - like "re: phone call" or "update on script" in the subject line to confuse them - otherwise they might filter the emails out if the computer sees "Dr. Laura" in the subject line.

While you're at it, send a second email to McCluggage that doesn't even mention Dr. Laura at all. Why? Because Paramount's computer people will try to set up an automatic filter that looks for messages that include the words "Dr. Laura" or "biological error." So, instead of making their job easy, send them a ton of emails about your favorite baseball team, the weather, or what you had for dinner last night. There's NO WAY they can filter out emails if they aren't even about Dr. Laura - and the more emails you send, even about unrelated topics, the harder it is for Paramount's leadership to find the real emails they need, and continue business as usual.

3. Help us get contact info for Paramount and Viacom (Paramount's parent company). Are you in Los Angeles or New York City? Do you have friends there? Please ask around and see if you can find a staff listing for either company (preferably with phone, fax and/or email addresses) and please forward it to us. We need to find the direct phone lines, direct fax numbers, and personal email accounts of any and all senior staff so we can target different people each week ALL YEAR LONG. And if anyone knows their home phones, addresses or favorite restaurants and hang-outs in LA or NYC, please let us know so that we can ensure that we local activists on the ground give them an earful about their unholy union with Dr. Laura.


The TV show aired on time, but was swiftly cancelled. What many thought would be a cross of Judge Judy and Oprah was a lamer, cuddlier version of her radio show; it was doomed in any event.

After suffering the loss of major sponsors while Aravosis continued his character assassination campaign, many thought Dr. Laura would vanish from the airwaves. They were wrong. She's not going anywhere.

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot:

Hey, John! You're a H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L-!!!


68 posted on 07/06/2007 4:44:02 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Has George W. Bush been taking Carter's Little Pills?)
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To: tuesday afternoon

sniff!


70 posted on 07/06/2007 4:44:55 PM PDT by moondoggie
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Did John Edwards write this?


71 posted on 07/06/2007 4:44:55 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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To: tuesday afternoon
"But I'd argue that those who disagree don't understand the nuance of language or of this particular phrase."

"Again, I don't mean to opinionated about it, but if you don't hear the negative nuance in the word homosexual ...."

There's that "n" word again.
72 posted on 07/06/2007 4:46:25 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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So apparently I can now offend homosexuals by calling them homosexual.

Pathics are such drama queens

75 posted on 07/06/2007 4:48:09 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (The polar icecaps are melting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .on Mars)
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To: tuesday afternoon

Darn, I thought it was an editorial by John Edwards asking the Post to stop calling him a faggot


76 posted on 07/06/2007 4:48:17 PM PDT by Popman (I removed my Bushbot brain chip after he didn't veto the McCain Feingold election anti freedom bill)
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There is nothing gay about being a homosexual. Co-opting the word “gay” will not make homosexuals any happier.
77 posted on 07/06/2007 4:48:21 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
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To: tuesday afternoon

What a fudgesicle.


78 posted on 07/06/2007 4:48:33 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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I wish they'd all go "poof"tah.

From the love that dare not speak its name to the love that won't shut up.

They don't want tolerance, they want acceptance, approval, and affirmation. They would probably get more if they went back in the closet.

The perverts don't like being called perverts. Oh, well.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

80 posted on 07/06/2007 4:49:28 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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