Last week, reporter Bill Berkowitz tried to get comments from anti-gay religious leaders about the Gannon Affair. Remarkably, no anti-gay leaders were willing to make a statement, thus proving their opposition to gay rights is just a cynical effort to manipulate their blind followers into voting Republican.
But I wonder if today's breaking news will finally end the silence on the religious right...
Gannon Planned Gay Wedding on White House Lawn
(Satire News) White House reporter James Guckert, who used the alias "Jeff Gannon" in his reports for Talon News, planned to marry his gay lover in a ceremony on the White House lawn, according to his just-discovered diary.
In an entry dated November 3, 2004, Guckert wrote "I was so thrilled about my role in beating Tom Daschle yesterday that I proposed to Chihuahua. I told him I wanted to marry him on the White House lawn in June. When he got over the shock, he gave me a deep kiss and told me he would be mine forever," Guckert wrote.
The identity of "Chihuahua" could not be determined at press time. Guckert used the nickname "bulldog" in his Internet ads, in which he advertised his prostitution services at $200 per hour, with a special weekend rate of $1,200.
In his diary entry, Guckert noted the difficulties he would face in holding a gay marriage ceremony on the lawn of the White House while George Bush was President, given Bush's strenuous opposition to gay marriage.
"I told Chihuahua we'd have to be discrete. I told him I could get him a day pass into the White House as a reporter for Talon News, but we couldn't kiss in front of the cameras. If [Pat] Robertson, [Jerry] Falwell, [James] Dobson, or [Sun Myung] Moon ever saw a photo, we'd end up in Guantanamo," Guckert wrote.
According to Guckert's diaries, he planned to ask GOP chair Ken Mehlman to be his best man. Although Mehlman refuses to discuss his homosexuality, he has been outed by BlogActive.com, which recently outed Rep. Ed Schrock, a conservative Virginia Congressman who retired rather than acknowledge his homosexuality.
When the existence of Guckert's diaries came to light, Rep. Louise Slaughter asked the Special Prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame to subpoena Guckert's diaries in case they shed any light on the White House source who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak.
The day after Slaughter's letter was reported, Guckert's diaries were found in the garbage outside his house by a Bassett hound that detected a strong odor. The odor turned out to be the severed head of a horse, with the initials "KR." Investigators are trying to determine the identity of "KR."
