[hinckley buzzard]

"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.

[eastsider]

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.