I was driving in Dallas a few minutes ago, trying to find a radio station to listen to. I stumbled across 90.5 KTXG. They were talking about today's vote on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and were espousing every single power phrase they could think of to incite the far-right looney bin voter to "stop this deviant behavior."

Except that their arguments and logic are all based on false statements, half-truths, fear-mongering and lies. Take, for instance:

"Homosexual behavior is unnatural and homosexuals put together parts of the human body that weren't meant to ...be combined." -- Right, because oral and anal sex aren't part of any non-homosexual relationship. What lunacy is this?

"Eliminating Don't Ask, Don't Tell is giving homosexuals special rights" -- no, moron, it's giving them equal rights. The equal right to serve OUR country and to defend our freedom, including the close-minded ignorant bevavior practices by this particular talking head (by schedule, it appears to be the brainchild of Bryan Fischer) and hundreds of others.

"Hating homosexuals isn't bigoted" -- really? From our friends at Merriam Webster: "bigot. n. a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance" So yeah, they're bigots. And anyone espousing such an obviously inaccurate statement shouldn't be permitted (by social limitation, not regulation) to speak in any public forum. Clueless in the extreme.

"This bill repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell will be a bellweather to gay rights." -- Great! The more we can focus on being good to one another and acting as Christ would instead of as these blow-hard buffoons (see: Pharisees, Saducees, other intolerant religion-selling blind men), the closer we'll get to being true followers of His.

So, to all my friends -- gay, straight, Christian, agnostic, atheist, polytheist, Wiccan, etc. -- thank you for keeping your minds open and your radio dials away from idiots like these who continue to lead some down the path of ignorance and intolerance. We pretend to have all the answers and to know all -- we don't. We're made in His image, but not with His knowledge. Omnipotence and omniscience are His alone -- judgement too.