Focus on the Family spends a lot of effort describing gays as "evil." Then their spokesman Jim Daly assures us they don't hate gay people. Uh huh.
Jim Burroway has a bit more on the booing of a gay soldier during a GOP debate. Burroway observes that since the Vietnam era the GOP has worked hard to make sure that every time a politician meets a soldier the first thing said is effusive thanks and praise. They even shamed Dem politicians to do the same. This has been going on for decades. But, faced with a gay soldier, that reflex suddenly disappeared.
I don't watch the TV show Dancing With the Stars, though I am well aware of the uproar caused by Chaz Bono being a contestant. The uproar is because he is transgender. Lots of Fundies declared they would not watch as long as he is on. One feature of the show is audience participation in deciding who is kicked off each week and who stays around. Timothy Kincaid of Box Turtle Bulletin notes that Chaz can't dance. Which means he has survived for a few weeks only because the audience likes him and is comfortable with him being transgender.
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