And God gave us words
{ Tags: Bush, God, religious right, Tyson GayTouchy, touchy some people are, especially zealots on the way-out-there religious right. The American Family Association’s news web site has a filter that automatically changes words it doesn’t like. So an Associated Press story from Eugene, Oregon, about track star Tyson Gay was “corrected.”
The headline: “Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials.” The story:
Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.
And on it went. Read more here, if you can stomach it. The AFA later changed the story, restoring Gay’s good name.
Maybe the AFA’s on to something. Imagine the possibilities with the name Bush.
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