Via OutSports Jock Talk Blog, we find this instance of the wingnuts going so absolutely crazy at the use of the word "Gay" that one of their "news" outlets has automatically changed the name of US sprinter Tyson Gay to "Tyson Homosexual."

If you're unaware of this particular psychosis of the bedwetters, John Aravosis explained it about a year ago:

Homosexual is the word the religious right uses expressly and uniquely in an effort to dehumanize gays. Anti-gay religious right activists have said publicly that they will not use the word "gay" - rather, they insist on using "homosexual." Why? Because for some reason or another they figure that the word homosexual helps their cause. And while I don't agree with the religious right on many things, their ability to gay-bash swiftly and effectively is unqestioned. If they think the word gay helps us and the word homosexual hurts us, who am I to argue?

Aravosis, in turn, links to the New York Blade, where it's explained in more depth:

But the distinction between the two terms is important and influential.

Every May since 2001 a Gallup poll asked Americans “In general, do you think homosexuals should or should not have equal rights in terms of job opportunities?”

The yes responses are as follows: 2001: 85 percent; 2002 86 percent; 2003 88 percent; 2004: 89 percent; 2005: 90 percent/87 percent; and 2006: 89 percent.

Note the two percentages given in 2005. That year, Gallup asked half the respondents about equal rights for “gays and lesbians,” resulting in a 3 percent higher approval compared with the Galllup’s typical use of the term “homosexual.”

…Switching the terms “gay” and “homosexual” also influenced the number of people who said they were against equal rights. According to the same Gallup poll mentioned above, in 2005, 7 percent said “gays and lesbians” should not have equal rights in terms of employment. But 11 percent said that “homosexuals” should not have equal rights. That translates to 4 percent change—in favor of LGBT equality—simply because of the terminology.

That's why they change "gay" to "homosexual" on every reference, even to the point of changing Tyson Gay's name. One can only wonder what they'd have done with this paragraph from the San Diego Union-Tribune:

But this is Gay, who breaks records and also breaks the mold of your typical world-class sprinter – the trash-talking, gesture-making, self-promoting, expletive-spewing mass of tattooed muscles. Gay, 25, is a mama's boy from Arkansas who goes to church, watches what he eats and gets to bed on time.

(Reposted 25 hours later because the server ate the original.)