It was no more than, eh... a sexual massage

I AM HERE TO TO warn you that since homosexuals took over the island of Lesbos and possibly Michelangelo's paint brush centuries ago, the crime rate involving gays in America has risen 2,386 pct.! Whoa, there. That's not true, of course, but I am rehearsing for a possible job on Fox News or James Dobson's Family Research Council. The latter outfit may be more immediately available since its co-founder, George Rekers, a fiercely anti-gay Southern Baptist minister, was widely reported to have been traveling around with a 20-year-old male prostitute that he acquired from a source called Rentboy. Com. Rekers denies the unflattering details of the story. On the other hand, the lad says he gave Rekers sexual massages. In fairness, for some people, that might mean nothing more than a finger flip at 20 paces.

But I was going to talk about Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the very same Family Research Council. Sprigg, also an ordained Baptist minister, has been loudly pestering sensible people on national broadcasts with the idea that gays are criminals who are "trashing" democracy and, to say the least, ought not to be bothering straight soldiers honorably serving on active duty.

Although I have found no evidence that Sprigg served in the military, he seems to be dispensing a lot of inside wisdom on the system.

I've made a note to remember this the next time one of these whirlybirds flies off the handle about gays on TV. I stuck it in my hypocrites file.

a ethath

Two of three Republicans: Obama's a Socialist

THE NEXT TIME THAT you have lunch with three Republicans, you should know that two of them believe President Obama is a Socialist. That's the finding of a poll by Research 2000, a well grounded independent pollster that ran the survey for the Daily Kos, a liberal Blog. The survey reported 66 pct. believe Obama is a lefty who dreams of owning General Motors and such.

Want more from the folks who support that other party that keeps talking about bipartisanship and human values? More than half of them don't believe that Obama was born in the U.S, or, like the Republican lieutenant governor of Tennessee, aren't sure. There were a lot of other things in the Republican profile from the survey that was anti-gay, and pro-Sarah Palin. It also reaffirmed what has been known in certain religious quarters many times before. Two thirds of the Republicans say the only way to get to Heaven is through Jesus Christ.

By the way, your luncheon partners may uneasily dismiss the results. But that's not how they will vote in the privacy of the booth. Fair warning.