"America the Beautiful" was written by a Gay person

[Bhaisahab]

is what Jesse Kornbluth reports. wonder how the anti-gay crowd will respond to that?
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"The woman who wrote the words to "America the Beautiful" was--you know this from Trivial Pursuit, perhaps--Katharine Lee Bates. What you probably don't know is that Bates, a professor at Wellesley College, lived for 25 years with another woman, Katharine Coman, chair of the Economics Department and Dean of Wellesley. Theirs was a "romantic friendship" so deep that, after Coman's death, Bates wrote, "So much of me died with Katharine Coman that I'm sometimes not quite sure whether I'm alive or not."

If the red-blooded patriots who love this hymn knew it was penned by a presumably gay woman, would the words stick in their throats?"

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/145/story_14546_1.html
(scroll down to the story: "America the Beautiful" as the National Anthem)

[Insider]

1. we're here

we're here. we're queer. we write lyrics :-)

[foreigncorrespondent]

2. People just don't realize,...

...exactly how much the queer community has given them. What a boring world it would be without us. Yet they want to continue treating us like shit!

[Atman]

3. It was originally entitled "America the Faaabulous!"

Okay, sorry. Couldn't resist.

[kentuck]

4. And your point is...???

:shrug:

[Straight Shooter]

5. I may be wrong; I think the point is that human beings have value

irrespective of sexual orientation. That it's important not to judge others by their appearance, their social station, or their private sexual choice of a consenting adult partner. That when we exclude people on the basis of one trait, we often lose far far more than we think we are gaining by our self-righteous tunnel-vision morals.

But that's just my interpretation of the reason for professor pot's post.

If only we could discover that Francis Scott Key had been gay ...