Conservatives are pissed because....

There is another gay guy in the Bush administration. Even worse, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called his partner's mother his mother-in-law.

"We have to face the fact that putting a homosexual in charge of AIDS policy is a bit like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse," says Sprigg. "But even beyond that, the deferential treatment that was given not only to him but his partner and his partner's family by the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is very distressing."

Sprigg says in light of the Foley scandal, "it's inexplicable that a conservative administration would do such things." He also notes that Rice's comments defy an existing law on the books protecting traditional marriage. "So, for her to treat his partner like a spouse and treat the partner's mother as a mother-in-law, which implies a marriage between the two partners, is a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the Defense of Marriage Act," the FRC spokesman states.

I still don't quite understand why they take the whole gay thing so seriously. I mean, statistically, gay people are only couple percentage of the whole population, and there is nearly no way for gays to really affect the supermajority by any sexual means. So why bother? Even if you think it's wrong, it's not a disease which is contagious, and gay people don't procreate (oh, the central holding of Hernandez v. Robles), so it won't spread genetically either, so what else do you want? (BTW I do believe there will be a way for gay couples to have genetic children. I don't know how, but that doesn't seem totally impossible to me. Maybe I should think of that more after my PhD degree?)