The following is a paraphrase of a conversation I had with my son about this yesterday.

What I find ironic is that we are taking a single word: gay, and deciding whether it is offensive. Someone somewhere took the word gay meaning happy and its meaning was changed to slang for homosexual. The widely accepted meaning of the word changed again and the slang now means stupid or strange.

My point is that we are deciding that this has some type of negative meaning regarding homosexuals when the majority of the time one has nothing to do with the other.