Running out of people to hate

Bill Wineke has a column today that shows the religious right is running out of people to hate so they are turning on themselves. He writes:

According to Paul Cameron, chairman of the Family Research Institute, our Christian values are now being undermined by James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family. Yes, that James Dobson. The same James Dobson who professed to find a threat to youth values in a gay SpongeBob SquarePants. Cameron is accusing Dobson of supporting gay marriage.

I'm sure we'll see Dobson at a gay pride parade any day now. Maybe he'll be dressed as Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies.

The column also contrasts the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and civil unions that was passed by both the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly with what Dobson is backing in Colorado.

The Wisconsin Legislature this voted to send a proposed constitutional amendment that would make both same-sex marriage and arrangements that make "a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage" unconstitutional in this state.

In Colorado, however, Dobson is endorsing a "reciprocal-beneficiary" bill that would permit "any two unmarried person who are excluded from entering into a valid marriage" to sign an agreement giving each other certain legal rights, "including but not limited to health care insurance benefits."

The bill also seeks to give "reciprocal beneficiaries" the right to hospital visitation, inheritance and decision-making powers.

I'm not necessarily endorsing the bill Dobson is pushing, I don't know enough about it, but it is interesting that Dobson is perhaps starting to realize that some of the things he and his colleagues have been pushing are actually anti-family. Wineke adds:

Our Legislature would ban legislation that even the country's most famous "religious right" spokesman feels is in society's interest.

Hate is tricky business isn't it?