Buckeye trees have a major case of the Anna Paquins.

Though most people might meet news of the tree's bisexuality with a shrug, one Christian Ohioan is outraged—OUTRAGED he tells you!—that his fellow citizens are referred to as "buckeyes," coinciding with his state's filthy abomination of a choice to mark the tree its official symbol. 

On October 29, 2010, The Courier, the College of DuPage’s newspaper, published a virulently homophobic article titled "Homosexuality Isn't A Human Right," an opinion piece penned by notorious bigot Wayne Lela of the hate-group Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment. Due in part to an intense and immediate reaction from the gay blogosphere, the Courier received a litany of complaints and quickly promised a response from its editor.

Late last week, we got that response, a rebuttal that paints the gay community as oversensitive whiners and defends the Courier's perpetuation of very dangerous anti-gay rhetoric by mentioning constitutional rights nearly a dozen times. Sure, the First Amendment gives Fred Phelps the right to unhinge...