state politician associate with the that behavior, right? but in texas, the republican calculation is that it is more important to be really anti-gay than to support the troops. contrary to beltway wisdom right now, on the right, radically anti-gay politics are -- they have got a bunch of victories lately, they have got the republican party wrapped afternoon their fijer to where people are choosing their anti-gay politics over their support for the military. right now as the republican speaker of the house is booking meeting rooms so anti-gay groups can meet in the basement of the u.s. capitol and is refusing even allowing an anti-gay discrimination bill to be -- aggressively anti-gay stance than they are in a really, really long time. it's weird and you would never know it from reading the belt