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Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
Islan, you're just flat wrong. ****** IS hate speech it is not remotely comparable to "negro". Get a grip.

The "buttpirates" huh? So, you don't understand homosexual people, you are repulsed by there activities, okay. I get it. I wouldn't propose you change your point of view. What's the purpose of referring to them in as demeaning a fashion as possible? Answer, There IS no point. It's just a milder form of hate speech.

Getting pretty sick of all the haters. I don't much care for GW and the RIght but I think there are a lot of good people I just don't happen to agree with. Some I STRONGLY disagree with. I don't call the names.

I don't run in gay circles myself, so I am am certainly not an authority on the subject like some here, but it seems to me that the gay community uses those terms (including butt pirate) to identify themselves (tongue-in-cheek I presume). I have heard the term (******) used on the street and in movies by gays to describe openly gay men . A search shows there are even gay websites (blogs) such as *****tyassed*****.com where the blogger has self proclaimed "his loafers are light; his tongue is acid."

I did not hear Coulter say anything derogatory about gays other than use what appears to be a commonly used term...Unless you think that implying that Edwards might be gay is an insult to gays. I could probably buy that argument.