Anti-Greenwald and Miranda feeling on DU: how much is closeted homophobia?

[Summer Hathaway]

46. Find a post of mine

where I have expressed hatred - or even a tingling of a misgiving - against gays or lesbians.

Let me save you the trouble - you won't find any, because there aren't any.

If you have read my posts on Miranda, you will find that I have invariably referred to him as Greenwald's spouse. I think that is the proper term, as they are married. But referring to either of them as the "lover" of the other does not imply anything other than the fact that they love each other, and are partners in that relationship.

Over my time posting on message boards, I have learned that when someone has nothing to offer, fact-wise, by way of a rebuttal to what someone has said, they will almost invariably sink to calling someone a homophobe.

They will, of course - as you have done - make that accusation without anything to back it up, and without any evidence to support their accusation.

It is always the last resort of an extremely stupid person who thinks that - well, who doesn't think. And it is that very lack of thinking skills that leads to name-calling and false assertions being thrown around, seemingly in lieu of having something of substance to say.

I'm sorry if I hit a nerve by pointing out that the word "lover" has nothing to do with homosexuality, and is NOT a homophobic slur. In fact, it has been used (as I also pointed out) in movie titles, song lyrics and TV show titles for decades - and I can assure you none of those uses were in any way homophobic slurs.

Get out more - read more - educate yourself. You might just learn (though it's doubtful at this point) that intelligent people do not accuse others of being homophobes simply because they themselves don't understand the meaning of a word, and are ignorant as to its usage.