July 3, 2011

Can Mormons Now Make Fun of Gays?

By Jack Cashill
On the Sirius Satellite radio in my car, when Rush is not on, I usually switch back and forth between the Sinatra station and the Broadway station. The primary host on the Broadway station is a fellow named Seth Rudetsky.  Openly gay, Rudetsky occasionally lets his politics bleed into his insider commentary, as he did not too long when he gratuitously denounced, on the air, former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer. Grammer was taking over the lead in the long-running La Cage aux Folles, one of the many gay-themed shows now on Broadway.  Grammer's sin: being a straight, out-of-the-closet Republican.  In Rudetsky's view, Republicans are homophobes.  He thought it hypocritical of Grammer to play a gay man and went on to cite some of Grammer's heterosexual peccadillos.  In June, however, a happier Rudetsky turned much of his attention to the upcoming Tony Awards Show to be hosted by the openly gay former Doogie Howser star, Neil Patrick Harris. Rudetsky was particularly...(Read Full Article)