Monday's Minute of Anti-Hate

Frank Rich over at the New York Times wrote an excellent op-ed column a couple of days ago. Everyone should take the time to read it. It makes a lot of sense. He begins breaking down the silly fear-mongering of "The Gathering Storm."

Far from terrifying anyone, “Gathering Storm” has become, unsurprisingly, an Internet camp classic. On YouTube the original video must compete with countless homemade parodies it has inspired since first turning up some 10 days ago. None may top Stephen Colbert’s on Thursday night, in which lightning from “the homo storm” strikes an Arkansas teacher, turning him gay. A “New Jersey pastor” whose church has been “turned into an Abercrombie & Fitch” declares that he likes gay people, “but only as hilarious best friends in TV and movies.”

And he finishes discussing the imminent demise of the anti-gay-marriage movement.

As marital equality haltingly but inexorably spreads state by state for gay Americans in the years to come, Utah will hardly be in the lead to follow Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont. But the fact that it too is taking its first steps down that road is extraordinary. It is justice, not a storm, that is gathering. Only those who have spread the poisons of bigotry and fear have any reason to be afraid.

These two quotes are just a tiny piece of the well-written well-thought whole.