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June 30, 2008 | 11:18 am

Surname swap: Homosexual for Gay

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Here is a real gem of a flub from the ultra-conservative American Family Association’s news site. It deals with the news of Tyson Gay sprinting into the Olympic Games. Here’s the screen grab:

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This story has been corrected, but the Friendly Atheist points out that a story mentioning Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies has not.

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Don we now our homosexual apparel!

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Comment by Dennis Wilen on 6/30/08 at 11:35 am

Maybe they weren’t kidding about automating copy editing.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 6/30/08 at 12:22 pm

This is a reminder, as was Gene Weingarten’s column in the Post, of why it doesn’t work. Here is a story about the OC Register outsourcing their copy editor to—where else?—India.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 6/30/08 at 12:28 pm

What’s the issue? Gay can mean ‘happy’, or it involves you’re sexual orientation, which ‘gay’ is most often today referring to being a homosexual.

Comment by Mike Huffman on 7/05/08 at 9:06 am

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