What's wrong with this context:
It is a good thing to keep a fire going by putting a lot of faggots on it.
My sympathies to Washington. It is one thing to have to follow the path of Kramer and kiss Jesse Jackson's posterior.
It is another thing entirely to have to apologize to a bunch of f.., er people, who want to mess around with your posterior!
Sometimes when I see the kind of BS generated after Mr. Washington's comments, I can't help but wish that some of the faggots you mention were not of the wooden variety.
I gather from all this it's also inhuman and ideally illegal to say "no I didn't call someone a nigger". Wait, it'd be ok for washington to call someone a nigger, cause he's black. Similarly "fag" or "faggot" is a term of affection among gays - at least it was in Australia when I lived there, in Sydney you can't avoid them. So presumably it would have been just fine for T.R. Knight to (say) call Washington a faggot... but not a nigger, cause T.R. is white...!?!
Now I really have confused myself. Time to put my head into a bucket of cold water again, and hope it's all gone away when I come back up.