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I agree with everything you just said.  
 
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In addition, we must expose the problem of "what the word means". Most opponents of homosexuality use ''homosexuality'' to mean sexual behavior between people of the same sex. Defenders are well aware of this usage, and they deliberately seek to create confusion by speaking of homosexuality '''chiefly''' in terms of "identity", "preference" or "orientation". Same as with [[pedophilia]] (described as a near-saintly "love of children" rather than as adult-child sex.  
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In addition, we must expose the problem of "what the word means". Most opponents of homosexuality use ''homosexuality'' to mean sexual behavior between people of the same sex. Defenders are well aware of this usage, and they deliberately seek to create confusion by speaking of homosexuality '''chiefly''' in terms of "identity", "preference" or "orientation". Same as with pedophilia (described as a near-saintly "love of children" rather than as adult-child sex.  
    
We need to clarify that '''our usage''', anyway, is always about the behavior - not the propensity, the inclination, the "inherent longing" or any such crap as that.  
 
We need to clarify that '''our usage''', anyway, is always about the behavior - not the propensity, the inclination, the "inherent longing" or any such crap as that.  
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