Jesus Christ...
Gay has three meanings.
One is joyful.
One is homosexual.
The third, the one that everybody complains about, is lame/bad. I use it flippantly, and I have gay friends and have nothing against gay people.
PC gone mad, get over yourselves.
2 points.
1. in the context he was using, it was the 2nd one. he was reffering to the sports break for tea, and the girly 'pitch' that shane warne does.
2. point 3 started out as a dig towards point 2, you can't deny that. Initially when someone would say "that's gay" it would refers to something bad and at the time, gay = bad/stupid/immoral ect. The word hasn't evolved since then.
I liked his apology to the Gay community though. It wasn't some bullshit apology full of cliche's, but it showed his thought process as to why he didn't find it offensive, and how his Gay BFF's helped him figure it out that the offensive was over the connotation that Effeminite = gay = bad.
OTOH, the GLBT community can be over sensitive at times. No ones asking for him to apologize to cricket nuts.....