Truest statement of the week

I wish people could recognize this for the hate it is. All those people laughing with Ann Coulter, supporting her as she says these terrible things about gay people. You cannot talk publicly anymore about Jews that way. You cannot talk publicly anymore about people of color that way. Why are gays allowed to be still and forever endlessly the whipping boy? How can the general, who has 65,000 gay men and women under his command, talk about his soldiers that way? It really makes them feel good as they're going into battle. I mean, that’s unconscionable, what he says.

-- Larry Kramer on Coulter and General Peter Pace's homophobia, "Larry Kramer on the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, the Government's Failure to Prevent the AIDS Crisis and the State of Gay Activism Today" (Democracy Now!). Community member Marcia enjoyed last week's article "How we got to this point" and e-mailed that after some of the points made in that, "There's no way you can pick this as the truest." Agreed. It is hate speech, both Coulter and Pace, and it should have been called out as such.