Joy Reid, gay hater

Joy Reid tried to deny it. Now she's sort of admitted to writing all that anti-gay stuff on a blog in 2006.

The first I heard about it was from an article I read online in The Nation which pointed out that all her anti-gay stuff was pretty typical for a "liberal" blogger in 2006.

It was pretty recently that Democrats suddenly turned pro-gay. In the '80's, Jesse Jackson was the only pro-gay candidate for the presidential nomination and the Democrats were scrambling to get rid of him. More recently, Al Sharpton was the only one in favor of same sex marriage.

As governor, Michael Dukakis banned adoption by gay parents and sent state troopers to remove foster children from homes where foster parents failed to sign forms affirming their heterosexuality. His campaign was pleased whenever gay rights activists protested against him. He thought it would be his ticket to the White House.

Al Gore denounced gays. "It's not just another alternative lifestyle." He supported anti-gay bills by Jesse Helms and vowed he would never take campaign contributions from gay organizations.

You can watch video of Hillary Clinton smiling as an audience protested against her opposition to same-sex marriage.

Remember when Democrats suddenly turned pro-gay? It was the first time I really understood Black activists who thought that white liberals only supported the Civil Rights movement because it gave them something to be self-righteous about.

Many years ago, my family went out to eat. We went to a barbecue place downtown. I was somehow aware that it was the restaurant section of a gay bar. We sat there in a booth. My sister was infuriated that two women were sitting together on the same side of a booth. Gay bar or not, I had no idea what her problem was.

Years later, she knew she was supposed to hate Russia and I could see her struggling to think of a reason why. All she had was that Vladimir Putin was photographed without a shirt.

Later, she and the rest of the Democrats latched onto Gay Rights. The United States had briefly inched ahead of Russia in the area of Gay Rights and they decided to lord it over them.

Russia had repealed their laws against homosexuality ten years before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned state sodomy laws, but that didn't matter. Remember the calls to boycott the Olympics in Russia? Homosexuality was a felony in half the states in the U.S. when the Olympics were held in Atlanta. If I remember correctly, Georgia repealed their sodomy law shortly before the Olympics.

Russia passed a law banning people from promoting abnormal sexual practices to children. It wasn't clear if this included homosexuality. Violating the law would get you a $40 fine. No one ever got a ticket for it. Russia is under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights which was going to rule on whether to overturn the law.

But, in the lapdog press in the U.S., pundits wondered what would happen if two male athletes kissed during the Sochi Olympics. What would the Russians do?

They had no idea that it was perfectly normal for two men to kiss in Russia. (See the Soviet movie The Diamond Arm.) In fact, two women athletes in Russia got excited over a victory publicly hugged and kissed. The Russians thought nothing of it, but the U.S. press declared that they must have been Lesbians trying to shock everyone.