Should Christians use the word: gay or homosexual?

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This question must be answered in different ways depending on the time, context, and individuals. The contemporary movement to normalize homosexuality has intentionally shifted descriptions such as "sodomy" to "homosexual" and then to "gay." Now it has shifted again to same love, equal love etc., 

Furthermore, activists now embrace words that were first used as hurtful descriptions (such as "queer") as a way of identifying their own cause. Even among those advocating the normalization of homosexuality and the legalization of same-sex marriage, there is no unanimity on the correct language. 

Thus, the seemingly endless series of initials-LGBT, LGBTQQ2IA, QUILTBAG, and so on, relationships endorsed the term gay. More recently, there has been an effort to move beyond gay to a multitude of other possible words. 

Christians speaking about these issues should use language that is the most clear and least intentionally offensive. At the same time, we lose something when we use the word gay. This is true of any word that seeks to avoid moral clarity. Unlike other words, homosexuality has the advantage of speaking with sharp particularity to the actual issue at stake. Just as heterosexual 'fornification' has changed to 'making love' and then the word deterioates from there. 

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