Conservative website auto-changes name of athlete ‘Tyson Gay’ into ‘Tyson Homosexual’
”[It] looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” … proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard … sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual.”
From the People for the American Way blog, Right Wing Watch. (PFAW / RightWingWatch.org)
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