Why Conservatives Hate Gays, Love the Slippery Slope  Between
the Iowa debate and the wealth of memes that have grown in
response to Rick Perry’s crazytalk “Strong” ad spot, there’s
been plenty to talk about this week in the realm of politics. So
much so that you may have completely missed that the Senate is
trying to LEGALIZE BESTIALITY!!  Or at least that’s what the
Family Research Council and a handful of right-wing pundits
would have you believe. Actually, what’s happened is that the
Senate has voted to repeal a legal ban on sodomy in the
military, which makes a lot of sense, given that DADT has been
repealed. The language of the original ban, however, which is
now being removed from American law, is that a servicemember who
“engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of
the same sex or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of
sodomy.” Of course, this isn’t legalizing anything so much as
de-criminalizing one specific word; as Tracy Clark-Flory points
out at Salon, plenty of states don’t