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• Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he supports General Peter Pace, insisting: "I think people are entitled to believe what they want to believe, but what they say in their official and secular roles should be an expression of tolerance and respect for people regardless of our differences". Wait, isn't this the same man who participated in FRC's "Liberty Sunday"? Just checking. The former Massachusetts governor went on to remark on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': "When I first heard (of DADT), I thought it sounded silly and I just dismissed it and said, well, that can't possibly work. Well, I sure was wrong. It has worked". Did it? Or do we you just think it worked because you never saw what an openly gay person could do in the army? [San Francisco Chronicle]
• Garrison Keillor issued a response to the gag-a-rific uproar over his Salon article. [Public Radio]
• Indian trannie beauty queens! [DNA India]
• J-Hud's no diva. You better recognize, bitch. [TMZ]
• Counter-intuitive? A group of British gay activists are protesting anti-gay laws by going back in the closet. Yeah, that's right - they're going in the closet to show solidarity with people who can't be out of the closet. That's like going on a hunger strike to show solidarity with people who have solidarity or refusing to shower for people who don't have clean drinking water. [UK Gay News]
• HRC launches fresh campaign to fight hate crimes. [HRC]
• A Florida jail will now require HIV tests for all inmates. [Sun-Herald]
• Coke makes you pretty! Soft drink giant Coca-Cola and health drink company Lumaé have announced plans for a "beauty tea" for "active and image-conscious". [Telegraph]
• Mohamed al Fayed - the billionaire whose son, Dodi, died with Princess Diana on that infamous Paris night - has filed a lawsuit against British policing. He insists that Diana's claims of a hit on her life should have been included in their extensive, exhausting and excessively publicized report. This case will outlive us all. Especially Dodi and Diana.[HuffPo]
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I have no problem accepting Kiellor's apology.
I woke up this morning to Writer's Almanac and was reaching to unplug the radio and throw it against the wall because I was pretty pissed with Kiellor.
Then I read his apology and, y'know, it makes sense. I was really surprised by his comments in the first place, and I didn't expect that at all to be his position on the gays. But, his apology actually makes a lot of sense under the circumstances; at least it's a lot more legitimate than Tim Hardaway's or Isaiah Washington's apologies.
(As an aside, I wish guys like them would stick to their guns like Peter Pace instead of going all soft nuts and making fake apologies; I like to know who my enemies are instead of guessing.)
So Kiellor made a mistake as to the audience of his statement--which was benign under the circumstances--and he paid the price for that mistake. He quickly and (I believe) honestly apologized for it. What else can the man do? He gets a gold star in my book.
Isn't Romney's comment a rebuke of Pace and a call for tolerance and respect?
I understood from the getgo that Keillor was being an equal-opportunity "offender" in his article. There are bigger fish to fry than this silliness.