Why, you might ask...

...is it that I can still be taken aback by examples of idiocy and hypocricy coming from the whacko wingers?

I don't know, but I guess I'm glad that I can retain just enough idealism to find this kind of thing outrageous.

Via an AmericaBlog story about Dick and Mary Cheney...

"It's disappointing — but not surprising that a father would stand up for his daughter," agreed Georgene Rice, spokeswoman for the Defense of Marriage Coalition, the group backing Constitutional Amendment 36.

These are the 'family values' people? The ones standing between the libertine homos and our precious family units?

A father standing up for his daughter is "disappointing"?

Well, Ms. Rice, as a matter of fact, I happen to find my own family unit very precious indeed, and on behalf of my gay daughter, may God damn you to Hell.