Reply #80: I just don't see that implication in the accusation that Bob Allen, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, and

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Glenn Murphy Jr. are monumentally despicable divisive hypocrites fanning the flames of America's rampant homophobia (which, btw, is a weak word, implying fear as opposed to outright hatred.) As if any obscure gay-bashing bigot isn't bad enough, these twisted fucks flaunt their homo-loathing from the bully pulpit as if to certify its righteousness. And, they influence public policy. To see their actions as an especially vile affront to human decency and political progress is hardly to place the nexus of the anti-gay problem within the LGBT community.

Personally, when I've made the "so anti-gay must be so gay" accusation, it's been out of the same frustration at and incomprehension of the RW vision of the "real" America, and of what is good and decent in a person. When the word faggot has been used, it has been to affront the perpetrators with a word I know they consider an insult, and as wink and a nod to the irony of the situation and the hypocrisy of the culprit, not to suggest that there's a damn thing wrong with those *they* like to label as such.

I don't know how I can explain that any clearer to you, but if I could, I would.