Senator Gary George inspires rage this morning, readers. The Oregonian Senator, who's hoping to repeal his state's Equality Act told Just Out magazine that harassed gays should learn to "shut up". Literally.

George's argument's a familiar one: the Equality Act, which protects queers from discrimination, simply gives gays "special rights," which, George says, run contrary to America's equality-for-all argument. Similar arguments are often made about affirmative action, a comparison not lost on George:

If I discriminate in favor of you it automatically requires I discriminate against someone else. I was hoping with your generation we can stop calling each other ‘Asian-American,' or 'Latino-American'… I have dear dear friends in the legislature who are black but sometimes I really get tired of hearing about their color.

Yeah, race can be exhausting. And so can right wing politicians who don't understand the beauty of human difference.

It's only downhill from there, especially when George offers some ill-conceived advice to gays who face occupational discrimination…

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