Austrian Cardinal Knows Some Marvellous Gays

“Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has said that he knows some ‘marvellous’ gays,” The Local reports. OK, this is not really newsworthy, but the headline is fabulous. I mean, he knows some marvellous gay men but still wants to discriminate against them. It’s the same mumbo-jumbo all intolerant people say when they want to make their bigotry seem compassionate—they love the man, they only hate the characteristics that defines him. It’s like the racist who loves black men on the condition that they are white.