huffingtonpost.com — Wurzelbacher: At a state level, it's up to them. I don't want it to be a federal thing. I personally still think it's wrong. People don't understand the dictionary--it's called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It's not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that.
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usarugulaMay 5, 2009
"kareem....How would you like being called gay?."Is your ego so fragile that a three letter word is capable of shattering it?
joemondoMay 5, 2009
There are no scientific arguments "against" homosexuality.You're confused.
emo110May 5, 2009
Then why is he constantly in the news?!?Oh, wait... maybe it's so we can pick on him! LOL!
usqueersdotcomMay 6, 2009
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Fourth Edition, bottom of the page. "USAGE NOTE: A reclaimed word is a word that was formerly used solely as a slur but that has been semantically overturned by members of the maligned group, who use it as a term of defiant pride. Queer is an example of a word undergoing this process. For decades Queer was used solely as a derogatory adjective for gays and lesbians, but in the 1980s the term began to be used by gay and lesbian activists as a term of self-identification. Eventually, it came to be used as an umbrella term that included gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people.Nevertheless, a sizable percentage of people to whom this term might apply still hold Queer to be a hateful insult, and its use by heterosexuals is often considered offensive. Similarly, other reclaimed words are usually offensive to the in-group when used by outsiders, so extreme caution must be taken concerning their use when one is not a member of the group."Now, if each of us Queers were really all that different and odd (two alternative definitions of “Queer”) then the closet wouldn’t work so very well for so many years for so many of us worldwide, would it?
devans00May 6, 2009
Do gays eat human kids alive or smell bad or something? I don't understand what danger Joe The Plumber's children are in around gay people.<seriously bewildered>
secrityMay 7, 2009
I REALLY hope that you meant Next Repub. VP CANDIDATE.
secrityMay 7, 2009
Does AK have provisions for gubernatorial recall elections?