Last Call

Next time you hear "There's no difference between Romney and Obama on LGBT issues!" from someone, recall this story about how the largest anti-gay group in the GOP is vowing to destroy Mitt Romney over having a gay person on his staff.

A leading anti-gay figure in the Republican Party attacked Governor Mitt Romney for hiring an openly gay spokesman, sending a shot from the GOP's socially-conservative base across the nominee's bow.

Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association, is probably the most straightforwardly anti-gay Republican to appear regularly in the party's mainstream. Presidential candidates including Rick Santorum have appeared on his radio show, and he spoke at the Values Voter Summit in Washington in October.

He responded yesterday to Romney's decision to hire an openly-gay — "out & loud gay," in Fischer's terms — foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell by calling it a "message to the pro-family community" of "drop dead."

You have a choice in November if you believe as I do that gay rights are human rights.  Here's a hint: the Republican Party is the wrong one.