“There’s nothing humble, gentle or patient about the intolerance and out-right bigotry coming from some of the presidential candidates of the GOP, the Gay-Obsessed Party,” writes Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart today — and he’s 100% right.
“We’ve long known that nothing throws conservatives into a tizzy more than the Gays,” Capehart writes. “They’re either signing marriage pledges or bemoaning the demise of “don’t ask don’t tell,†the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, which was tossed in the ash can of history by Congress a year ago yesterday. Now, as we hurtle to the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, the GOP candidates or their spouses are openly discussing how they would block gays from sharing fully in the American Dream and avail themselves of the rights, responsibilities and protections it provides their families.”
Capehart, who, I’m happy to say, increasingly has become very comfortable castigating anti-gay politicians for their hate tactics, calls out Marcus Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney by name, offering example after example after example.
Certainly, let’s not forget to add Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul to the hate list.
When will it end? Probably not for a few decades, though grow old it has. I at least look forward to the day, not very long from now, where politicians who hate on “the gays” will know enough to at least to hush their voices in public, knowing their anti-gay hate speech, were it unveiled, would be the end of their careers.
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