Karilyn wrote:
All things considered Crawfish,
you are lucky you didn't wind up dead :/Where the hell do you live anyway? I know that would be ludicrously dangerous in my part of the States. Hell, in Georgia, I halfway suspect a straight person could get away with murdering a homosexual by claiming it was self-defense from the fag who was trying to give them AIDS. And the judge would accept that and let the guy go!

I remember like, sometime a few years back, there was a guy who beat a transsexual to death over the course of several hours, and used that excuse and got away free.
You... you're actually serious, aren't you? Not EVERYONE who is uncomfortable with homosexuals is going to beat them, possibly to death, or even tell them that they don't approve of their sexuality. It sucks you live in such an area where that is tolerated and is apparently a common occurance, but you should start wording things so you don't sound like you think EVERYWHERE is a massive "NO GAYS ALLOWED" zone. I seriously doubt you actually do, because you at least sound like an intelligent person, but seriously...
In something semi-unrealted to Kari's post: Homophobia covers a wide,
wide range of things, from the kind of people who wish harm upon uncommon sexualities, to the kind who simply are uncomfortable with seeing homosexuals acting sexual in public. Whether or not they're even going to act on their homophobia depends entirely on the person, so if someone tells me "I'm a homophobe", I'm not going to immediately go "YOU'RE A DICK, YOU DESERVE TO BE DISRESPECTED JUST AS YOU ARE DISRESPECTING THEM". That'd be like if I told them I was arachnophobic and they told me to stop being such a bitch to spiders.
Edit: Also, I used to like Obama a lot more, but I don't as much since I heard of some his latest plans. Things are still early though, so I'm not going to say I hate his guts till later in the year, at least.