We can fight about the fine points of what Barack Obama needs to do to make all Democrats happy and still get the votes from the "too busy for information" middle that he needs to win the election.  But while we are verbally sparing with that, the right-wing hate just keeps coming.  

Now I will admit I’m a white woman; my skin’s so pale it’s scary without makeup.  So I can’t begin to fully catch on to all the subtleties of racism, I haven’t experienced that.  But I know how to read, even between the lines.

We are used to the very direct anti-Obama email foolishness.  But there is a more subtle approach taking root.  I got an email this morning that didn’t take much mental facility to read the screaming racism that poured out onto my computer screen.  Even to my, sometimes malfunctioning, mind the message against African American people was quite clear.

They have shown their hand in my local paper, the Lexington Herald Leader, in Lexington, KY.  Contributing Editor, Mike Allen, summed up all the sick thinking of the religious right into a single foul op-ed in Sunday’s paper entitled "Broken links: sex, procreation, marriage"  http://www.kentucky.com/...

Mr. Allen obviously seeks to play on people’s fear of gay marriage and even polygamy to claim contraception as immoral.  He claims that the Anglican Church’s acceptance of the use of birth control in marriage in the 1930’s has caused sexual depravity leading to gay marriage by allowing couples to enjoy sex without threat of pregnancy.

If we straight couples had never been so immoral as to desire to love one another without constant pregnancy, too many children to care for, and health threats for the mother; than those pesky gay people would have never been inspired to demand the right to love one another either.  In other words, sex is immoral, whether gay or straight.  I always knew they believed this, at least now they are showing their hand.

I guess I should be proud.  I should even feel genetically superior due to my ancestors multi-generational struggle!  For today I picked up my local newspaper, the Lexington Herald Leader here in Lexington, KY and read an editorial titled “Getting Bubba, A Full-blooded American” by Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post Writers Group.