Smoking, Pirates, Thieves, Adulterers and Drug Dealers

Here are a few items I found on blogs in the last few days that various public figures and politicians have said about gays:

Iowa GOP State Rep. Dwayne Alons says he agrees with The Family Leader, the right-wing group spearheading the battle against marriage equality in Iowa, that homosexuality is a public health crisis akin to smoking

Georgia GOP Rep. Bobby Franklin Compares Gays to Thieves, Adulterers, and Unrepentant Drug Dealers

Eugene Delgaudio, the self-titled Public Advocate of the United States, writes us today with the news that radical homosexual pirates were running amok at last month’s annual Gasparilla Festival in Tampa.

Former Minnesota governor and likely 2012 GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, siding with the Iowa group that says same-sex marriage is worse for your health than smoking.

I guess I shouldn’t nag my mother about smoking because she doesn’t nag me about being gay. I don’t recall ever committing adultery but back in the 80’s a peer’s husband accused me of having an affair with his wife in his divorce filing. Of course, it wasn’t true. I do have a notorious past involving recreational drug commerce so I have to accept that comparison but most of my gay friends have not been involved in such activities. And I’ve never been a thief or a pirate. I guess two out of five isn’t bad.