If you looking for a little comedic relief today, look no further than Christwire.
First, a little background: Monday gay activist Mike Rogers outed, André Bauer, Lt. Governor of South Carolina in his BlogActive site and on the Michelangelo Signorile's Sirius broadcast.
Christwire.org blogger Stephenson Billings, today rushes to his defense, asking the burning question:
If You’re a Fantastic Pro-Family Republican, Does One or Two Same-Sex Encounters Really Make You Gay?
It gets better.
Citing Bauer's pro-family bona fides of strongly opposing marriage equality, gay adoption rights, and supporting religious iconography and language on the state's license plates, Stephenson rushes to defend Bauer from the "pervert's" accusations. The piece reads as though it were lifted straight out of The Onion. I'm especially fond of the liberal use of salacious language, such "lubing" as a verb and "bulge" that is sprinkled throughout. I'm sure this family values advocate wouldn't want his own children reading what he's put out on teh internets.
Stephenson makes the case, that is it really such a big deal? I think the money quote can be found here:
If you have a great record fighting against the gays, doesn’t it cross out a few moments humping a younger man against the wall of some hotel room?
I'm not familiar with Christwire, which desribes itself as "Conservative Values for a unsaved world," so I did a little googling.
And apparently this isn't their first courting of controversy. They made a minor splash back in March riling against an auto/homo-erotic photograph of New York Yankee ballplayer Alex Rodriguez. Ask by a gay blogger to explain himself, site proprietor kept a game face, not letting the blogger in on a joke, if indeed it is.
And, I found this posted to Yahoo's Answers forum: Is Christwire satire? And the single answer was, "No one's that retarded."
Still, they seems especially obsessed with gays, in a particularly salcious way, right now warning good Christians that Ben and Jerry’s Wants Kids to Eat Semen Flavored Ice Cream.
I think it's satire, but it's hard to know when Fred Phelps can protest Iraq War Vets' funerals as some insane expression of hatred of gays, Michelle Bachmann's people blame the tornados on the gays, and Pastor Steven Anderson can say with all seriousness insists every gay person molests children, and without remorse, "If you’re a homosexual, I hope you get brain cancer like Ted Kennedy." Also:
"They recruit through rape. They recruit through molestation. They recruit through violation. They are infecting our society. They are spreading their disease."
And, of course, anyone familiar with Peter LaBarbera, (dis)affectionately known in the gay community as "The Peter," is familiar with the particular psychosis of militant Ex-Gays who covertly continue to enthusiastically participate in the GBLT community under the guise of "exposing it."
Perhaps we're seeing another example of Right Wing's reality lapping satire. It would behoove the GOP to reign in the crazees a little if only so we can tell them from the satire.
H/T to Pam's House Blend.