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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (10725)	4/25/2002 1:28:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I think we can become impatient with silly ideas but still be tolerant... My understanding of the point of having a word like "homophobe" is to draw a line between tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance and "impatience with silly ideas" are on the same side of that line. The word, homophobe, I suppose is a bit like "pornography," where one knows it when one sees it. Of course, everyone sees it a little differently. Some advocates might consider anything short of a revered status for homosexuals to be homophobia. Still, it seems useful to have a word that most of us can recognize as the dark side of the line if for no other reason than to codify that there is a dark side.