The game, of course, being lobbing volley after volley of calculated insults at those whose lifestyles differ from your own.

Leonard Pitts thinks Fred Phelps is gay. For those of you not in-the-know, Phelps is a completely bigoted, homophobic “minsiter” at some wack-o church in Kansas, he preaches and rallies against homosexuality – even using it as justification for the war in Iraq – that God is punishing us for our homo-national ways by sending our boys home in bodybags or as quadriplegics.

But really, Pitts is striking at Phelps with hilarious satire.

Consider all that, and then consider the sick ferocity of Phelps’ attack: God hates “fags.” Gays are vomit-eating dogs. Gays are “worthy of death.”

Can you say “self-hatred”? Isn’t it obvious? The poor fellow is gayer than a Bette Midler AIDS benefit. In San Francisco.

Wouldn’t that be something? Like finding out that Hitler was 1/4 Jewish…

Tell me again, how Christianity is a “religion of tolerance”?