http://friends.macjournals.com/mattd/2008/07/01#a1923
( -or- http://tinyurl.com/65s6ky )
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Via OutSports Jock Talk Blog, we find this instance of the wingnuts
going so absolutely crazy at the use of the word "Gay" that one of
their "news" outlets has automatically changed the name of US sprinter
Tyson Gay to "Tyson Homosexual."
If you're unaware of this particular psychosis of the bedwetters, John
Aravosis explained it about a year ago:
Homosexual is the word the religious right uses expressly and uniquely
in an effort to dehumanize gays. Anti-gay religious right activists
have said publicly that they will not use the word "gay" - rather,
they insist on using "homosexual." Why? Because for some reason or
another they figure that the word homosexual helps their cause. And
while I don't agree with the religious right on many things, their
ability to gay-bash swiftly and effectively is unqestioned. If they
think the word gay helps us and the word homosexual hurts us, who am I
to argue?
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Check out the graphic on that page: they did a global search-and-
replace on the word 'gay'! Good thing they weren't around for Hiroshima!
-- Ed Leafe
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