That's what I thought...crickets from Dan and all those that take offense of the use of words. Your words of treating others with respect, not attacking people directly or indirectly by the groups they are of like mind, experience or genetics..are hollow. It's a subjective ethics system that has no standards other than your own that can change at any time due to circumstances such as who is involved and who says what.
Attack religious people, especially Christians, no problem.
Attack Conservatives/Libertarians (The Right) over their political views, no problem.
Use words relating to a group in a derisive manner, if you are a part of that group, no problem.
The opposite spectrum of the above is of course a problem to those with said subjective ethics.
Darvince, your derisive use of the word gay is as logically sound as a black person's use of the N word. Zero sound.