Hilary Rosen's Ann Romney Comment

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Webster also has a kind of odd idea of what 'intransitive' means, but I suppose they can take that up with the linguists.

The transitive/intransitive divide really doesn't apply to Modern English verbs as much as it does in other languages, since there is no morphological distinction between the two categories as there are in some other languages.  It can be used intransitively, which seems to be all that Webster's cares about.

I know, I've noticed that about English since I've begun studying a language (Japanese) in which transitivity pairs are grammatically important.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

'Homosexuals' are a social phenomenon that didn't exist in Bible times.

dude, I don't care what label you put on it - call them "those-who-sexually-lust-after-those-of-the-same-sex" if you want.  But the bible does address them and their sexual desires and actions.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yes, as I said, the Bible has any number of things to say on that as on many subjects, as does lived experience if one bothers to actually make a token effort at comprehending the objects of one's opprobrium.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

(I understand there's a difference between the N word and calling someone a dyke. But both are offensive and using the excuse that "they call themselves that" is a real cop-out, especially when everyone knows the original comment was meant to be offensive in the first place.)

[Mr. Morden]

Thread's been derailed beyond repair.  If you guys want to debate homosexuality, do so on the appropriate board.