Most Baptists don’t like Catholicism. Most of them tolerate it politely, but most are dead against Catholic doctrine. But all Catholics I know call Baptists Baptists. They don’t call them Catholic bashers. Even though some Baptists are pretty vocal against Catholicism, they’re still not openly called Catholic bashers.
Okay, let’s say that Catholics begin referring to Baptists as Catholic bashers, and that the term sticks. Soon everyone is using it. It’s picked up by the media, and eventually you read or hear the term Catholic basher for Baptist almost daily. It becomes acceptable, and finally even politically correct. And if a Baptist were to resent the term and get angry at the Catholics who use it, he would be bordering on hate crime.
Sound absurd? It is. I am getting so tired of the overused misnomer, homophobe, obviously coined by homosexuals who want to label someone who doesn't like homosexuality as some sort of coward. At least one fellow tried to correct the error, and figured out the term, homomisia. But the suffix misia can mean hatred, disgust for, revulsion of, etc. For me, disgust rings closest, but hatred is way out there, so I don’t like homomisia either. After a lot of thought, and trying my best not to be negative, I think a much more accurate and appropriate term, rather than the derogatory homophobe, would be nature lover.
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