They had to wait to be told by their gay constituents that they were needed to act offended so as to have one thing to whine about Amy Barrett. Predictably, those two words were described as hate speech by the Liberal media.
Democrats just Look for reasons to be insulted. The term is NOT an insult, in and of itself. But the PC crowd has made it such.
Look at it this way: If YOU are male and your Sexual Preference is a female-HOW is that somehow an insult?