To: eastsider
"Homoerotic" refers to desires, not people. "Homoerotic bishop" is a phrase wich actually makes no sense. I think it must be an attempt at euphemizing the accurate phrase, "homosexual bishop."
I wonder why he did that.
To: hinckley buzzard
I didn't read it as an attempt to euphemize but rather to correct a solecism. The word homosexual, coined in 1892, solecistically combines the Greek homo with the Latin-based sexual. The word homoerotic is preferable because it combines the Greek homo with the Greek-based erotic.
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