While it emerges the Justice Department has been pushing out brilliant public servants on suspicion they might be gay, the Defense Department won't let a member of congress in a sex-sex relationship take a spouse along on official business when all her colleagues can, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development says gay speculators caused the mortgage crisis, and the State Department discriminates against its gay diplomats, the Defense Department has been sanitizing the Wikipedia bio of the first gay soldier killed in Iraq.
This stuff gets so silly after a while. It's the manifestation of minds of people who are, variously, out of touch, wilfully ignorant, and narcissistic. They're the sort of people who fill their offices with photos of their families, who- when single, talk all the time about their romances- yet when someone else does the same, complain that "other" is pushing it in their face.
They're the sort of people who try to save face by claiming they have close gay friends and support gay rights issues while they cannot bring themselves to admit to anyone on the planet they have a gay son or daughter, and have never spoken a word, or taken a single step, however small, in support of any gay rights initiative.
History's march is inexorable. In time Americans will look back at the government leaders, parents, family members, ministers and neighbors who demanded silence and second-class status from people whose only problem was that they made those others uncomfortable inside themselves, and will shake their heads in sorrow and pity.
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