Obama's church buddies on his new gay marriage stance

[Hovik]

I don't get why you're disagreeing so fervently with reality here. You may not agree with the definitions given by dictionaries, but you're completely wrong to claim that the definition I use is not there at all. Did you even check before saying that?

Reference.com
Merriam-Webster

I could keep going, but these were just the first two results on Google. Note that I actually read them before making a claim as to what they contain. Truth and accuracy are a tad easier to achieve that way. Feel free to keep making faith-based proclamations as to what information various books contain, though. I always enjoy getting arguments not based on any sort of evidence from other atheists.

Well, I would've given you the courtesy of politely retracting my previous statement considering I misunderstood exactly what you meant, but the manner in which you replied no longer gives me such incentive.

That said, those definitions are crude and imprecise, and they are insufficient to describe the phenomenon of homosexuality vis-à-vis psychology. Yes, those may be suitable layman's definitions, but we're not talking in layman's terms, are we? Homosexual relations with another person does not necessarily equivocate homosexuality with respect to my sexuality/orientation, and that's what Annik is driving at. Consider a pertinent example the difference in definition of a 'theory' in the scientific and layman senses; on the one hand, there is the more precise definition that is relevant to science, and on the other there is the less precise definition that roughly equates to "hypothesis" used by the layman.

You have to understand that dictionaries report usage; they do not dictate it.