The Left Loves Diversity — Except When It Comes to Political Views
Unfortunately conservatives, particularly “social conservatives” who are willing to promote any State action opposing gay marriage, are easily characterized as homophobes because they act like them, despite their protestations to the contrary. When the financial mess around Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae broke the news, every conservative radio talk show host from Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage decided to make jokes about Barnie Frank’s homosexuality and make it a topic of conversation. What the hell does that have to do with the financial mess we’re in? While its true that there’s a case to be made for inappropriate assignment of posts to Frank’s boyfriend, that wasn’t the point of the jokes, as this was rarely if ever mentioned. The point was to mock him because he’s a homosexual.
As long as that’s the first thing out of every prominent conservative’s mouth when talking about Barney Frank, it will be easy to peg conservatives as homophobes. If you don’t want to be painted as homophobes, you should be writing these prominent conservatives and tell them to keep their gay bashing jokes to themselves.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its probably a duck.
