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I'm glad you share my misgivings about that word, "pro-homosexualist." I hate it when conservatives participate in the debasement of our language and coin neologisms at the drop of a hat.
27 posted on 12/05/2002 1:20:35 PM PST by bourbon
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To: bourbon
I'm glad you share my misgivings about that word, "pro-homosexualist." I hate it when conservatives participate in the debasement of our language and coin neologisms at the drop of a hat.

I believe the term homosexualist was coined by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams and it sounds pretty good to me; however, the term pro homosexualist seems redundant.

34 posted on 12/05/2002 1:30:16 PM PST by UbIwerks
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I'm don't like 'pro-homosexualist', but 'homosexualist' is no neologism. Auberon Waugh was using it over 20 years ago to describe what we might otherwise call homosexual activists or people who were pro-homosexuality. And even if it were a true neologism, it's reasonable to coin a new word to describe a new phenomenon.

36 posted on 12/05/2002 1:31:52 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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