Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Homosexual qualifies for Olympics

In a case of Political Correctness going too far, the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site automatically alters any word or phrase they deem offensive. One such example is to replace any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run -- leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard. One such example is this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual”:



While they have since corrected the error, Google's web crawlers have picked it up, ensuring them of much embarressment for a long time to come...

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