An upstanding couple from Philadelphia took the time to spew their anti-gay bigotry vis a vis a letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Like a lot of hate, it sounds so very rational and well-thought right up until that fatal little vicious jab.  I'm going to post the whole letter as a classic example of how reasonable bigots can appear:

PROPONENTS OF same-sex marriage discredit their position by continuing to equate it to inter-racial marriage. The comparison is not only historically inaccurate but morally offensive.

Before the abolition of slavery and the subsequent ratification of the 14th Amendment, blacks were not permitted to marry at all, even within their race. To enter into the sanctity of marriage recognizes "What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." Hence slaveholders wouldn't have been able to sell, trade or give away "chattel" if it would separate family.

It is quite a leap of jurisprudence to claim the equal-protection clause for previous servitude includes sexual disorientation, but outrageous to compare human bondage to aberrant behavior.

Joseph J. Catto & Shawnita Armstrong-Catto

Philadelphia

So Mr. Catto and Ms. Armstrong-Catto are morally offended by the homosexual struggle for equality.  Fair enough.  They are free to wallow in their hatred and equally free not to marry a homosexual.  I'm sure they are a delightful couple to have over for dinner and probably contribute regularly to some gay-bashing church deep in the bowels of Philadelphia.

And they might feel right at home in southwestern Kansas where a local thug stole a rainbow flag that a 12 year old boy purchased for his parent's bed and breakfast.  The parents flew the flag because it was a gift and as a symbol of non-discrimination.  The boy bought it because it was pretty -- he had no clue about the symbolism.  The parents are determined not to succumb to hatred and have ordered two more flags as replacements. 

Like the Amstrong-Cattos, one of the towns citizens had no qualms sharing her bigotry with the world.

Waitress Vicky Best says such a flag has no place in Meade.

"It's hard enough to keep your kids on the straight and narrow without outside influences like that," she complains. "We stay in a small town to stay away from the crap like that that's happening in big cities," she says, calling homosexuality "biblically wrong."

Ah, Ms. Best, does that crap include theft and stealing?.  Why flying a rainbow flag is  likely to corrupt young children and send them prancing off to NYC and San Francisco while your tacit endorsement of THEFT will probably have no impact whatsoever on their moral development --- your kids will likely grow up to be as intolerant and bigoted as you.  Congratulations!