Lifelong liberal Garrison Keilor condemned for stating the obvious
"The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men -- sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers and go in for flamboyance now and then themselves. If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control. Parents are supposed to stand in back and not wear chartreuse pants and black polka-dot shirts. That's for the kids. It's their show."
As Mark Shea observes:
"To this rather mild and droll observation of the bleedin' obvious, Dan Savage replies by raving like a flaming drama queen and Andrew Sullivan's One Man Magisterium declares Keillor a homophobe. All because the old liberal who has made it clear he supports gay marriage has also dared to observe that, you know, it's not all about *you*.
"Yeah, I'm aware of Keillor's own checkered past in the marriage department. It just might be that, as an old man with a small child, he's kind of given some thought to his own sins here. But the main point is: he didn't really do much in this piece beside make a couple of dry observations of what anybody with a functioning brain should see: that marriage is ordered toward the preservation of the race and that the needs of narcissists take a back seat to that. And for that crime he is condemned by the Pope of Gay Narcissism and vehemently denounced by the head of the Gay CDF."