There are two beliefs I have come to over the years. One is that no one is more mean-spirited and intolerant than those who claim to fight 'means-spiritedness and intolerance'. The second is that the people most likely to swear that you are an evil person if you do not sing the praises of homosexuality are also usually the very first to accuse you of it.

The term "homophobia" is not the first--although it's one of the more obvious; the term meant to imply that if you don't approve of homosexuality and accept it with open arms, it must be because you yourself are homosexual, and thus oppose 'open' homosexuals for fear of temptation. (Don't try to find the logic in it. Liberal argument contains a few tenets--conservatives are evil; capitalism is evil; Christianity is evil; Ronald Reagan is incredibly evil--and everything else shrinks or expands to fit.)

Joe McCarthy exposed dozens of Communist spies in the higher echelons of the federal government--not only have Soviet officials confirmed the status of these spies (both defectors and those who could speak freely once Reagan had defeated the Soviet Union), but it's also been confirmed by Soviet cables intercepted and decoded in the Venona Project. Liberals promptly claimed that McCarthy was a homosexual. One of his employees, Cohn, who was a homosexual (McCarthy's staff included black people (this was in the days of segregation), women, and homosexuals--not that liberals took much note) and was hounded relentlessly for it--by Democrats and the liberal press.

Whittaker Chambers was a Soviet spy, before leaving the USSR's employ and pointing out the status of, among others, his formerly fellow-spy, Alger Hiss. Chambers was not only accused of homosexuality, but of having sex repeately with his own brother--not just as an epithet, but as part of Hiss' defense in court.

J. Edgar Hoover, who also discovered several spies in the federal government--as well as speaking against the interrment of Japanese immigrants during WWII, another move that Democrats and the liberal press ignored--and is now referred to, without a shred of evidence, as a cross-dresser and a "closet" homosexual.

Hell, even Lincoln (who was a worthless tyrant, but he was also a Republican, and that's enough for liberal emnity. Probably the only worthless tyrant they didn't support) was claimed to be a homosexual, by some guy who said he'd found the diary of Lincoln's lover. He wouldn't say where it was, wouldn't let anyone else look at it, but he got plenty of front-page space over it.

Wait another ten or twenty years and see how many of Reagans "lovers" come up.