Top story on Martinez Web site: Support Gay Bashing Amendment

It appears the Republican Senate candidate from Florida, Mel Martinez, is going to keep trying to gay-bait his way to the US Senate. Earlier this week, he launched his first mass media buy - a radio ad comparing gay marriage to life under a totalitarian dictatorship, and then the ad urged Florida's two Democratic senators to support the Gay Bashing Amendment. Today, Martinez notes his support for the amendment as the top story on his campaign Web site. This in spite of the fact that at least one of Martinez' top campaign staff, finance chair Kirk Fordham, is openly gay (and has a lover of ten-some years).

Why raise money for openly homophobic ads that attack your own relationship in order to get an open homophobe elected to the US Senate? God only knows what possibly motivates these people. Well, ok, we all know - self-loathing, power, and money.