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July 1, 2008

American Family Association Auto-Replace Follies

For reasons we still cannot understand, the American Family Association's OneNewsNow site started replacing the word "gay" with the word "homosexual" in any Associated Press story they run. (?) And while the internet has picked up on the sheer hilarity over the AFA's recent article about track and field athlete "Tyson Gay" incorrectly turning faggy (which has since been corrected), the funniest thing about this auto-replace comedy bit is that they're replacing one word with another word that means exactly the same thing. It's a filter that accomplishes absolutely nothing, like changing "flip-flop" to "sandal," or "Muslim" to "Mohammedan," or "fatso" to "ham beast." Good job, AFA.


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It's pretty simple. The right-wing nutjobs know that using the word "homosexual" instead of "gay" conjures up images of gays pounding each others butts because it's got the word "sex" in it so that it freaks out middle America.

Really.

 

"Ham Beast"

L0Lz

 

The right wing goes far out of their way to make sure that gar rights are always "special" rights, gay marriage or same-gender marriage is "homosexual" or "same-sex" marriage. Anything gay has to be about the sex because then it's dirty.

They also only use quotes around "marriage" when referring to same-sex marriage.

It's a hate thing.

Very 1984 too.

 
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