Hypocrisy

Happy Friday.

Hypocrisy seems to be the theme of the current administration. A "do as we say not as we do" mentality pervades throughout. Perhaps nowhere is this approach more pronounced -- and more despicable -- than in the right's treatment of gays and lesbians:

• The right believes in states' rights except a state's right to condone homosexual marriage.
  
• The right believes courts should not legislate but insists on only appointing judges who subscribe to their social agenda.
  
• The right believes in the freedom not to associate to keep leaders out of the Boy Scouts except when schools use the same freedom to keep the military off their campus.
  
• The right believes in individual choices except when those choices take place in the privacy of one's bedroom.
  
• The right believes in families except when it comes to acknowledging gays and lesbians in their own family.
  
• The right believes in limited government except when it comes to legislating morals.

"Just How Gay Is The Right?" details the brutal, incessant attack against the gay and lesbian community in America. An attack that manifests itself in the denial of AIDS prevention education in our schools, in the appointment of extremists to the federal bench, in the equating of homosexuality to terrorism, and in an aggressive campaign of lies and slander.

The right's approach to the war in Iraq, deficit spending, social security, Medicare and the rest are policy choices subject to reasonable debate. The right's vilification of a class of Americans is without any legitimate defense.

Going on vacation. Many Happy Fridays until my return.