08-18-2004, 03:38 PM
Hi,
Where you mistake me is in assuming that what was probably a case of what is now called homophobia in my teenage years has sustained into adulthood.
Nope, since I made no assumptions about *your* state of mind at all. I called the *argument* that of a educated homophobe. And it is. However, that all horses have hair doesn't make all hairy beasts horses.
As to the rest, if wine can be married to food, then I contend the word has become sufficiently imprecise to cover a multitude of relationships, both animate and inanimate, and the argument from grammar does not impress me.
--Pete
Where you mistake me is in assuming that what was probably a case of what is now called homophobia in my teenage years has sustained into adulthood.
Nope, since I made no assumptions about *your* state of mind at all. I called the *argument* that of a educated homophobe. And it is. However, that all horses have hair doesn't make all hairy beasts horses.
As to the rest, if wine can be married to food, then I contend the word has become sufficiently imprecise to cover a multitude of relationships, both animate and inanimate, and the argument from grammar does not impress me.
--Pete
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