This post by Ann Althouse cracked me up. To no end.

Well, maybe to some end, because it made me think about the gay replacement issue. Not that I really knew or cared all that much. If people don't want to use the word "gay," it's a free country, and I'd never make them. As things stand, I use the words "gay" and "homosexual" more or less interchangeably. Usually, "gay" is more casual usage, like "straight" for heterosexual. Not a huge deal for me.

But for some people, you'd think uttering the word "gay" is a sin and of itself. Presumably because Jesus never said gay. So, quite comically, they are not only editing out the word "gay," they are doing it in so systematically that they're using software which replaces the name "Gay" with "Homosexual." Poor Tyson Gay became Tyson Homosexual:

"Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: 'A little fatigued.'"

But how far does it go? Suppose they're quoting the lyrics of the Flintstones TV theme song....

Damned if someone hasn't beaten me to it!

Have a Yabba Dabba Doo Time, We'll Have a Homosexual Old Time!

The gay search-and-replace meme has even led to photoshopping famous "gay" theme pictures. Ann Althouse had this one:

Very, very funny. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that searching and replacing "gay" with "homosexual might ultimately not be enough satisfy the real anti-gay activist hardliners. (You know, the kind of people who cling bitterly to their sodomy laws, if that's not too much of an Obamanation.....)

And while I'd never say that Ann Althouse made me do it, the more I looked at the "Enola Homosexual" picture the more it occurred to me that it wouldn't take much photoshopping to make the job of hardliners like these a bit easier.

Because extremism in pursuit of cleaning up the culture is no vice!

UPDATE: While I realize there's no pleasing some people, here's another version that ought to satisfy the grammarians.

* I'm afraid "Mount Sodomy Rum" will not work, though. "Sodomy" is already hopelessly linked to rum, and the lash.