Technically homosexual is not a term that John is familiar with either, sodomite really had been the only word widely in use, though he can parse out what it means. Homo-, of course, meaning same, and sexual... Well, he doesn't need his Greek or Latin to translate that one for him.

"Perhaps not," John replies, raising his eyebrows at the other man in reply. "But it is easier to forgive the man you love than it is to forgive the man he has slept with."