Disclosure: I'm actually homosexual so it makes it ok for me to the use that word in the same way Jews can call each other Jews.
Your disclosure doesn't make it any more okay than the fact that you dropped the word in a negative context, with no personal or cultural context provided until prompted. You can't do that, any more than I or anyone else can.
I don't mean to derail this thread more than I already have this morning, but I have lines I won't let people cross. I understand you meant well, but intention and perception are not the same thing and you need to be more careful.
In other news, so I don't feel like I wasted a post to be a complainer: hurray for version 0.5.10; and last night I made a bunch of updates to the draft whitepaper that I hope someone will look at because I'm not terribly confident in my understanding of the source code. Peek at
http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Whitepaper:Nxt