Remember That One Time Fox News Defended Homosexuality?

That's the 'god hates fags' lady, Shirley Phelps-Roper...you know, the one who crashes funerals of dead soldiers and screams biblical verses into mourning relatives' ears. She looks like a skeleton with googly eyes and dandruff hair. We hate her. Everyone hates her. Even Fox News hates her.

But, as I was watching this video again, I realized the Fox News lady does not hate her for the right reasons. Oh sure, she gets angry at Shirley Phelps for being a bad Christian who misquotes bible verses, but what she seems most upset by is the fact that Shirley Phelps labeled someone gay who wasn't actually gay. She's not upset about the homophobia inherent in Phelp's church, or our culture, or anything like that. But how dare Phelps accuse a soldier of liking penis!

By focusing on the liberal individual, the extremist, Fox distances themselves from liberal attackers. It's all political posturing. Meanwhile, the collective forces of homophobia remain invisible, and cultural stasis is maintained.