As I was struggling to get home yesterday, I saw some sorta thing or another going on at a little triangle plot of land where two fairly big (and very busy) roads intersect. It’s not unusual to see people there hootin’ and hollarin’ and waving signs – usually it’s the “peace” people, but this time it was something else (presumably their diligent actions have finally brought peace – if not joy – to the world), and traffic was really heavy so it took me several lights to get up there and see what it was all about. Looked like a bunch of clean-cut kids (boys, in fact) in jackets and ties holding signs, and flying some sort of olde-tyme flag (you know, pennant-style I guess you’d call it with the fish tail kinda thing) that I couldn’t read. To tell you the truth, I was thinking it was the gay choir from the nearby Universalist Church trying to drum up business for their next concert or something.

Kind of ironic, in that as I got closer, I could read the signs, which said “Honk for Traditional Marriage 1 Man + 1 Woman” (I guess they felt the need to explain “traditional,” which is good ‘cuz I always think of traditional marriage as Ward and June Cleaver or Donna and Alex Stone or Jim and Margaret Anderson – god, how I despised Kathy – though I much preferred “non-traditional” marriage, which of course would be Sam and Darrin Stevens or Tony and Jeannie Nelson – once they quit living in sin, of course – and maybe even Oliver and Lisa Douglas).

This isn’t exactly a bastion of gay hatred, so this little demonstration took me quite by surprise. Everybody else, too, ‘cuz there wasn’t a whole lot of honking going on. I tried to give them a look that would express both my pity for them, and the hope that one day they’d be able to live happy lives out of the closet so they wouldn’t need to spend all their time looking for love in public mens rooms.

But then the light turned green and I finally got through the f*cking intersection.

Speaking of anti-gay zealots, in looking around on the google, I was rather surprised to learn that the American Family Association (AFA) is urging people to boycott Home Depot.

“For several years, The Home Depot has given its financial and corporate support to open displays of homosexual activism on main streets in America’s towns,” said the AFA, in a statement. “The Home Depot has chosen to sponsor and participate in numerous gay pride parades and festivals. Most grievous is The Home Depot’s deliberately exposing small children to lascivious displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals and cross-dressers, which are a common occurrence at these events.”

Go figure.

Home Depot (or “Homo Depot” as the Freepers would say) chairman Frank Blake apparently told the AFA – politely – that they could go shit in their hat.

Blake thanked AFA for the petitions but again, as in the past, reiterated the company’s support for “diversity,” which includes same-gender “marriage.”

Atlanta-based Home Depot promotes diversity-oriented organizations, including “Out and Equal Workplace Advocates,” an LGBT advocacy group that supports workplace diversity, marriage equality, and activities such as Transgender Remembrance Day. The Home Depot is also a supporter of the Human Rights Campaign.

Apparently, the AFA doesn’t care for this list of organizations that HD supports.

You know, it’s just getting so darn hard to know who to hate these days.