Ah, no. Even if it was said with and obviously hateful way, at best it would have received a FU fag right back.
A straight person being called a fag means pussy (to be crude about it). At least here in New England where Ann is from. It's always been such. Maybe where you are from it's different, I'm willing to accept that.
Ann's point wasn't about Edwards - it was about our out-of-control PC culture that obviously so many on the Right have bought in to as well.
And that point is wrong.
That actor went into rehab as an *excuse* for why he said something unforgivable to a co-worker.
He was wrong to call his co-worker a faggot, that worker was insulted.
OK, so you and Ann are going to represent the folks who think calling others a 'faggot' is acceptable.
I'm on the other side of the fence.
We'll see how that works for ya, I suppose.
:-)