[concerned about politics]

If your kid calls another kid a 'faggot' in class, and that kid punches him -- do you think your son did anything wrong?

Only if the kid was straight. Then, my son would be in the wrong and shouldn't have said it.
If the kid claimed to be gay, sure. He could use the word.

I repeat, Faggot means homosexual. That's what the word means.

Why should a free people be dictated to by the left wing thought control machine and be forced to obey their lingual dictates? Who are they to decide what words are acceptable and which are not? Already they're trying to out law certain parts of the American language. How many words are we "forbidden " to use?

Speak up now, folks, or forever hold your tongues.

[Dominic Harr]

I repeat, Faggot means homosexual.

And 'nigger' means black person.

So do you allow your children to call black folk 'nigger'?

[MEGoody]

Who are they to decide what words are acceptable and which are not?

I notice the left never said a word when more than one liberal Senator has, in a fit of rage, called a fellow Senator a faggot right in the Senate chambers.

Personally, I think the word is distasteful and shouldn't be used by anyone. But it is very hypocritical of the left to criticize Ann but remain silent when members of the Dem party use the same word.