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Saying it isn't so doesn't mean it isn't. And it obviously wasn't a violation of 'common decency' to many. Perhaps the PC mindset has something to do with the 'common decency' perspective you have on calling someone a 'faggot.'

Common decency, like common sense, is a myth. Some people have it, some people don't, few people agree on what it is. In any case, if faggot is now a fair term to use in public discourse, it's only a matter of time before kike, spic, nigger, and motherfucker are all on the table. After all, they're only words, no sense in being PC about them. Maybe at the next Republican National Convention we can add, "Building conservative inroads to the nigger community," and "Protecting the nips from the chinks" to the party platform.

(If the mods delete this, I just want you guys to know that I appreciate the irony. But sometimes cognitive dissonance really is the best way to make a point.)

"Common decency, like common sense, is a myth. Some people have it, some people don't, few people agree on what it is. In any case, if faggot is now a fair term to use in public discourse, it's only a matter of time before kike, spic, nigger, and motherfucker are all on the table."

But they are on the table. They're only on the table for liberals, however. Conservatives must leave them there or be called racists or homophobes or some other slur--that's again, completely acceptable from the mouths of the left but laughable from the right (unless used against a right-winger, of course).

"After all, they're only words, no sense in being PC about them. Maybe at the next Republican National Convention we can add, 'Building conservative inroads to the nigger community,' and 'Protecting the nips from the chinks' to the party platform."

Oh, I see, if that was in the party platform, the GOP would be racist...how different that would be from what they call that party now. /sarc

You miss that in defining just which words we can use and having people like you agree with them, the left has defined the debate. You think that in accepting these terms, nothing has happened but a newly 'refined' debate. But what has happened is homosexuality has become a lifestyle, not a deviance, and largely because the actual acts, their participants, and other 'just words' for these things they do are not part of the debate--because they are 'offensive.' Would you find acceptable discussion topics in the common bedroom practices of these people you're defending against Ann's 'indecent' language? Why, no, those are disgusting! But they are what we are discussing! And they're off-putting, not because of the nature of the words, but because the left has banned their discussion, preferring the whole issue in public be one of individual legal license and not moral repulsion.

I am a states' rights libertarian. I believe that these people should be able to pound each other's feces all they want. I also believe states have an ability under the Constitution to ban such behavior (as they did when the Constitution was written), but ultimately, that it is an equally big waste of time for states to do so. Prosecuting consensual crimes is far less productive than prosecuting crimes of force. I do not have to morally approve of their acts to say that government shouldn't bother trying to police them.

That said, I do NOT believe that the left is even doing something as simple as promoting the agenda of 'moral' homosexuality here. They are promoting the idea that immorality cannot be labeled by anyone but THEM, and through government. These are very bad things, letting the government define morality and letting the left decide what that definition will be. This is what Ann specifically is arguing against. This is why I defend her, even celebrate her, while all these fools rush in.

"(If the mods delete this, I just want you guys to know that I appreciate the irony. But sometimes cognitive dissonance really is the best way to make a point.)"

Your point was already made. However, making a point isn't useful in politics these days. Scoring points is, and everyone who has bagged on Ann has encouraged the left to further accumulate them through their 'war by newspeak' tactics.

Being black or Asian has nothing to do with being a pervert...

They are entirely different things.

I am tired of these people who try to pass some perversion of nature off as a normal thing. It is a fetish, a religion of deviance and I will not bend my knee in acquiescence to it.