Same-sex marriage foe Rep. Allen West (R-FL) has fired the intern who re-tweeted a message responding to Tracy Morgan’s homophobic rant sent out by the openly-gay band the Scissor Sisters. “Dear Tracy Morgan’s son: if you are gay, you can TOTALLY come live with me. We’ll read James Baldwin & watch Paris is Burning. xxANA,” the group wrote. Moments after West’s intern forwarded the message, the congressman’s staff deleted the tweet and apologized for the “unauthorized” use of the account.
Last night, it struck me that every single statement on gay rights by the GOP candidates, however brutal, could have been leavened by some small concession that gays are serving their country honorably, that gays are a part of many families and indeed the American family, that they should not be demonized by the majority, etc. But none of the candidates could say a single positive thing. Or rather they believed they could not survive a GOP primary by saying anything even vaguely positive about gay Americans. In some ways, that's more telling.
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