As we have noted before, Glenn Beck seems to have a rather strange understanding of what it means to be “anti-gay” since he brags that “I don’t know anybody who is anti-gay” while, at the same time, regularly associating with some of the Religious Right’s most virulently anti-gay activists.

This apparent disconnect was perfectly illustrated today when we came across a viciously anti-gay column in WorldNetDaily this weekend written by Joshua Charles, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute at William Jessup University, who co-authored Beck’s 2011 book, “The Original Argument: The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century.”

Not only did they write a book together, but Beck also featured him on his radio program and his TV show. Perhaps they just never discussed Charles’ view that gay couples having children is a “profound, disgusting, vile evil” from “the pit of Hell”: