Writer's Block: Yes, offense taken
A story, this was quite a few years ago:
I was riding from school with a friend of mine. She had to pick up her little brother from school and I went with her. He kept going on and on about some kid he was in class with being 'gay'. I told him if he used 'gay' as a derogitory term again I'd bitch slap him. He did, so I turned around in my seat and bitch slapped him. He'd earned it. I'd warned him.
My family knows better. My sister once lectured me quite throughly on not using the term 'nigger rigged'. I haven't used it since.
Also, I have a young son who I refuse to let join the Boy Scouts as I'd read an article, quite some years ago, about The Boy Scouts of America kicking out a gay scout leader because of his sexual orientation in Rolling Stones.
Believe it or not, homosexuals are less likely to molest children than heterosexuals. True facts.