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I'm against censoring words. If there exists a negative connotation to a word, like gay, then it would be better for us to rehabilitate the term than just start crossing words out of the dictionary. Not to mention the obvious dangers censoring language like that, and just generally acting like Thought Police.
While you may feel that there's a fluid continuity between all kinds of sexuality, I think a lot of people would disagree. That doesn't necessarily make them wrong, stupid, or evil, they just don't see that kind of flexibility in themselves. Some people don't play hockey either, I try not to hold it against them.
I think you could say on a scale of 1 to 10, that perhaps if you were very close to one end or the other, you'd identify as straight or gay, and if you were in the middle, you'd be bi.
To close, this is definitely Orwellian. You don't like a concept, so you want to remove the very language to describe it. I also have strong doubts that someday people won't differentiate straight and homosexual sex. There are obvious, real differences, outside of any prejudice.
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