"Ever been to Broadway, Mike?"

Poor deluded Republican homophobics. They couldn't get their hate laws passed with as much vitriol as they wanted and now they're saying that gays are terrorists and bullies. Super homophobe Mike Huckabee has even suggested that gays hate America. I wonder if this tubby twerp appreciates everything that gays have brought to America. In art we have David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and many more. In music Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and many, many more. In theatre, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Tony Kushner, William Inge, and dozens of less-famous playwrights. In entertainment Johnny Mathis, Ricky Martin, Richard Chamberlain, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Penn and Teller, Nathan Lane, and many still-closeted icons. In sports, Greg Louganis, Billie Jean King, Orlando Cruz, Megan Rapinoe and a raft of others. In fact, I would suggest that if you took away everything that gay men and women have given to America, you would have a much less varied and colorful country that wouldn't be nearly as much admired. And what has Mike Huckabee given to America but hate, prejudice, religious bigotry and a constant living reminder of how badly some diets fail.