Yes. Thank you.
Here are some words/terms I have for years refused to use except in quotation marks (when related to the pertinent politically-charged issue/context of the day):
“Gay”: Homoerotic
“Homosexual”: Homoerotic
“Gender”: Sex
“Their”: His/Hers/One’s
“Them”: Him/Her/One
“Suicide Bomber”: Homicide/Genocide Bomber
“Red State”: Predominantly Republican and/or conservative State
When conservatives accept from the outset the narrative terms that favor the left, they yield precious debating territory before the debate even begins.
As an ordained minister, I am sickened beyond articulation by the way other clergy use the term “gay” when speaking or writing seriously about a Biblical/Christian perspective on homoeroticism (previously known as sodomy). Homoerotic persons are seldom sincerely gay, and they are never homosexual: There is no such thing as a biologically functional form of human sexuality that can occur between two members of the same binary sex. Period.
When Christian philologist (scholar of language) J.R.R. Tolkien described Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck as being “gay”, he had no intention of investing that admirable character with any vulgar, depraved attribute.
The predominately conservative States were generally mapped as Blue by news outlets (not always, but mostly: it was not then formalized) until the leftist mainstream media instituted the lock-step policy that they were to be labelled Red for the 2000 Election. Television maps usually used Blue for [R] States and Red for [D] States before the 2000 Election. That was problematic for the Marxists in the Media:
Red = Communist. Blue = Patriotic.
Red = Alarming. Blue = Calming.
Thus the Enemedia formally changed the script... and the right wing media obediently accepted the change like the controlled-opposition whipped curs that they are.
We on the right must take back the English Language.
“There is no such thing as a biologically functional form of human sexuality that can occur between two members of the same binary sex. Period.” EXCELLENT POINT!
From my own year long study of Anatomy and Physiology: “The Concept of Form Follows Function.”
I can call my ear my mouth and stuff French Fries into my ear for a week or two. Certainly, one of two things is going to happen. I’m going to starve or have a really, really bad earache. ;)