"Homophobic" means saying anything that might offend homosexuals?

Iain Daile said on Facebook today:

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/05/ben-bradshaw-hang-your-head-in-shame.html

Claire Khaw

Anyway, what is wrong with keeping one's options open? David Laws could be thinking: "I might be prepared to bat for a different side if I finally meet a member of the opposite sex whose company I feel reasonably confident of being able to enjoy long term."

I am afraid even now I entertain hopes of a certain Lord of the Labour Party in my unrequited love for him ...

Claire Khaw

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2010/05/david-laws-goes-mown-down-by-collective.html

Jill Garrow

Ben Bradshaw really needs to refrain from making bitchy comments about fellow gay men - it makes him look so nasty. I remember, not that long ago, he had a spat with Conservative gay MP Alan Duncan - and came off worst.

Claire Khaw

Gay men are vile to their own kind. Being gay, old, ugly and poor is much much worse than being straight, old, ugly and poor. I have seen the way they treat each other when they don't fancy each other.

Iain Dale

Ok, Claire Khaw. You have tried my patience once too often. You can take your BNP homophobic views elsewhere. You're not welcome here any longer.

Claire Khaw

Saying something that is offensive to a homosexual does not necessarily mean I am homophobic. Since I am expressing deep and intense regret at the sacking of David Laws as well as a deep and abiding admiration for Peter Mandelson, I don't quite see how what I am saying suggests that I hate homosexuals.

I would have thought what I have said displays a knowledge and experience of what being gay is like, which means that I actually have gay friends and know the kind of lives they live.

And then I was defriended.