The Other Anonymous, over at Capitol Fax blog, says:

Unfortunately, too many do believe in the prejudicial stereotypes that IFI sells.

TOA writes this in response to Rich Miller’s question on whether or not folks buy into the over-the-top rhetoric that groups like Illinois Family Institute promulgate. The original post is in regards to IFI’s bizarre diarrhea of the mouth over a proposed state bill which offer same-sex benefits to certain school employees. Oh dear, we can’t have “the gays” treated just like … just like … like every other American?!! Preposterous!

Yet lo and behold, we see a plethora of other gay-hatin’ going on this very same day from among the Midwest conservatives’ ranks:

• Illinois Review all but announces its “watch list” of gay folks supporting Sen. Obama. (Who cares which gay people support Sen. Obama or Sen. McCain for that matter?)
• The despicable cult leader Rev. Phelps is headed to Indiana today to spout hatred during another military funeral. (Thank God for the Patriotic Guard riders. I encourage all Illinois Reason readers to join PGR and attend as often as you’re able.)
• “Culture” Campaign’s first link on their homepage is still a discussion of why folks like Petey LaBarbera ought to keep their kids tucked away at home lest they get any ideas about “the gays”. Maybe they’ll update that after reading about IFI’s strange interpretation of this proposal since anything related to sex and schools seems to immediately pop up on Sandy Rios’ radar.

When conservatives finally get over their hatred of gay Americans it will be a good day in this country. I’m not holding my breath.

UPDATE/CLARIFICATION: Illinois Review copied its list of Sen. Obama’s gay supporters from Rod 2.0 blog wherein blogger Rod discusses the political ramifications of not only Sen. Obama’s gay and lesbian supporters but also those of Sens. Clinton and Edwards (Rod found the list via the campaign). Illinois Review chose to remove that discussion in favor of repeating only the list, changing the emphasis entirely.