Oklahoma Senator Joseph Silk is trying to pass a law that basically discriminates against the LGBT community. He explains the threat to religious freedom posed by the LGBT community but adds, “And I say that sensitively, because I have homosexual friends.”

Well, Senator, I have homosexual friends too. No really. I do. Sometimes I do say that I have homosexual friends in conversation but only in the same way that I like to tell people that I have Puerto Rican friends, you know, because I’m all about diversity. Well, actually I didn’t go around with a sign that said, “Are you gay/Puerto Rican? Will you be my friend?” But the point is that when I talk about my gay friends, it is not when I am trying to figure out a way to prove that they are a threat to my religious freedom or when I am telling them that they are not worthy of the same equality that I am worthy of. I mean, they’re worthy, dude, totally worthy.

It’s sort of exhausting trying to follow all of the different states that are trying to pass laws that allow discrimination or all of the states trying to fight gay marriage from becoming legal, even after it has become legal. Aren’t there any other problems in this country for these people to worry about? Is Oklahoma so freakin great that they have nothing better to do than sit around and figure out ways to insult and discriminate against the LGBT community?

Two men walk into a bar. Ok, not that old joke, but a variation. Two men walk into a bar. How do you know they’re gay? Come on. You know you want to answer that. But really here’s the correct answer. It doesn’t matter. They are using the same currency that the rest of us use. When business owners go to the bank they don’t have to separate the money they got from heterosexual people from the money they got from gay people. Or do they? Maybe that will be the next law they try to pass. Or maybe they’ll even come up with gay money. I think my homosexual friend would love to have his own gay money, but only if he could design and decorate it. Seriously. He’d love that.

Silk’s comment is getting some attention on Twitter. I love that we can Tweet a few jokes that show the idiocy of something like this though the, “I have homosexual friends,” line is less offensive to me than the fact that someone who claims to have homosexual friends would be working so hard to discriminate against them.

So let’s have a little fun with his stupid comment but let’s not forget that he’s not doing God’s work. He’s doing the work of a lot of other people like him, people who voted him into office. Let’s remember that and keep up the fight for equal rights and imagine that there will be a time that this country actually honors that whole “all men are created equal” thing. It’s gotta be coming soon, right?