“I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don’t mind gays. But I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time. Certainly not in my kid’s face.”

– Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars, who is lying like a goddamn bearskin rug on the floor next to a crackling fire warming a gay Aspen orgy.

Even more disgusting, as Yglesias and I were IMing, is how openly homophobic the Utah local newschannel is here, discussing how Buttars is “worried about the homosexual lifestyle becoming accepted or sanctioned in Utah public life.” Would a newschannel ever get away with framing a story that way about any other cohort of Americans? I favor robust federal action to forcibly integrate homosexuality into Utah public life.

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