"The word I used has nothing to do with sexual preference. It is a schoolyard taunt... It isn't offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays."
As I've said before, there are souls out there in the universe for whom the word faggot was the last word they heard as they were beaten to death.
One of my former roommates was brutally beaten in the alley outside Greg's Place - and the men who beat him called him a faggot repeatedly while they beat him, before they tried to run over him with their car as they speed away from the scene of the crime.
I was called a dyke over and over again when I was raped.
These are not simply schoolyard taunts. They are offensive to gay people. That should go without saying, but apparently it doesn't. They are words of hate, and they have no place in our public discourse. And if CPAC isn't interested in denouncing Ann Coulter, then they get to take ownership the words of hate she spewed on their stage.
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