Where Politics And Video Games Collide

@Boffo97

An accusation of homophobia is not an assertion that that person suffers from mental illness, so your accusation of hypocrisy is entirely groundless. It's an accusation of irrational fear. Also, if you'll consult the dictionary you'll find that a phobia is also synonymous for a strong aversion or atavistic reaction to something...such as the "disgust" you mention. In any case, the key descriptor is -irrational-, the point being that people disapproving of or reacting with disgust, fear, or hatret to homosexuality are being accused of doing so without the backing of either rational or empirical evidence.

@Benji

Again, there isn't enough here for a successful charge of defamation. Due to our free speech protections the standards that have to be met to prove defamatory speech are very high, and there are a lot of exceptions. The simplest one that's relevant here is simply that you can't be guilty of libel or slander by stating your opinion. That Thompson -thinks- male-male kissing is harmful to minors is his opinion and is therefore protected. Now if he made specific factual claims about the nature of the homosexual content of the game (which he hasn't, he's simply stated that there's "homosexual activity" which is true, strictly speaking) and they were proved to be A) false and B) made with foreknowledge that they were false AND the intent to cause harm, then -maybe- he could be sued.