I'm going to let this bit of nonsense slide:

"And you don't think his intention was to humiliate Mehlman by saying he was gay? You don't think this tactic would be in any way similar to telling Larry King that Mehlman was, oh let's see, a pedophile, or an alcoholic, or maybe a member of the KKK?"

No, I don't think that was at all his intention. Mainly because I don't think Maher thinks that being gay is a crime (pedophile), a disease (an alcoholic), or makes you some sort of reprehensible social outcast (like say, a violent racist-member of the KKK). I suppose anybody that saw homosexuality as one of these things would indeed find Maher's remarks disturbing. In fact I think he finds it amusing...umm...as anybody with a sense of humor would that a gay man is fighting against gay rights and actually trying to change the Constitution with the express purpose of discriminating against...well...himself. What makes it even funnier is that Mehlman makes a living slinging mud...so he's sort of getting some karmic payback...no? It's all just so damn ridiculous!

Of course a gay friend of mine was very much against the gay marriage deal because he felt that destroyed one of his favorite after sex lines..."That was so good if I could I'd marry you."

He liked it better when there was no way to hold him to that...typical guy right...