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Here's what I posted over in the Tennessee forum. It's The Leon Gray Show, but he made his initial comments in some prerecorded messages called The Gray Matter that the station runs periodically.

He's also VERY socially conservative

In addition to being anti-gay, he thinks intelligent design should be taught in science classes and prayer in schools would be a good thing. (Someone actually had to point out to him--on the air!--that he isn't a host on a religious station.) Oh, and he's a big supporter of Bush's "faith-based initiative."

He also likened homosexuality to genocide because he thinks that if too many people "become" gay (yes, he thinks it's a choice) there won't be any future generations. I'm single with no kids--am I a genocidal maniac? I have friends who are childless by choice. What about them? What about couples where one partner is infertile or sterile?

An acquaintance of mine called in at the height of the furor and Leon kept muting him and actually cut him off at one point and called him a liar. Nice. Gray also couldn't define what he meant by "homosexual lifestyle" and he doesn't think gay rights is a civil rights issue, which has obviously caused quite a stir.

I've stopped listening to his show. He was on shaky ground with me to begin with since his show cuts off the first hour of The Majority Report, which I'd much rather listen to. Him airing his regressive ideas about gay people was the final straw. I'm done with him.

In the aftermath, he's framing it such that he's being attacked not just for expressing his opinion, but for actually having those opinions. That isn't the case. Not one caller has said that he isn't entitled to his opinions. He can believe any crazy, mixed-up bullshit he wants to believe, imo. He just needs to be prepared to take responsibility when he's inevitably called on it.</rant>

UPDATE: I listened* for a few minutes today, and when he spoke to a caller he claimed that he hadn't said anything insulting(!) about gay people, apparently forgetting that he said what he said ON THE RADIO where people could, you know, hear it. You can read his original comments and listeners' responses for yourself here.

*I know, I know, I said I wouldn't. Sorry. I just wanted to see whether anyone was still giving him a much-deserved verbal smackdown over his stupid statements. FTR, they are. When he said he hadn't said anything insulting, I think I said something like "You DICK!" and turned the radio off.

Quick edit: Randi's show isn't off the air completely here--they have one hour of Randi, The Leon Gray Show (for three hours!), and the second and third hours of The Majority Report.