White House: One egg roll, please-- and hold the gays.

I noticed a story a few days ago about gay and lesbian couples with kids determined to get tickets to the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll (a tradition for more than a century). You know, a nice way to show that homosexuals can have a nice, stable home life. Smart move, I thought, but I didn't fall off the mobile chemical weapons production facility yesterday. I knew the White House would manage to avoid the icky people somehow.

And indeed they did. The tickets were first-come first-served as always, but with a catch: they included entry times. Since journalists out for a feel-good story wanted to have footage ready to go on the morning or noon news, all the White House had to do was give gay and lesbian families tickets with 11:00 am entrance times-- after the reporters had long since packed up and left. They aren't denied entrance, but no one in the media is the wiser. Some enterprising staffer is due for a big, fat, anti-gay raise.