Haters gonna hate and I am so sick of it
You may recall an item here some months back where I talked about an anti-gay email I had received and how I wanted to respond to it. My editors chose not to include it because they did want to give a platform to homophobia. Unfortunately, homophobes are finding plenty of platforms and the megaphones to shout from them. The ad above was taken off Hallmark Channel when viewers complained about seeing a same-sex couple in the ad, with one anti-gay bunch of bigots threatening a boycott of Hallmark over the ad. Because, to them, LGBT people -- including those who are loving, who marry, who raise children -- cannot be family-friendly. What crap. ( Hallmark has now reversed its decision.) But not the only crap. In my Q-and-A column, I recently included an item about Shepard Smith leaving Fox News. And in the email came a note about Smith that was so nasty and vulgar about Smith and his private life that I can't bring myself to quote it here. (This week, another letter al...