Closeted Countdown: What is Wrong with People Edition

I've long believed that the only thing that could motivate someone to dedicate their lives to homophobia is deep self-loathing. So start the countdown timer until these folks get caught with a gay prostitute:

• Uganda is trying to make homosexuality punishable by death again.  So this week's countdown is how long until one of the Republican Presidential candidates is directly linked to this.

• Some psychopath in Scotland has skipped right to the point and tied a gay man to a telephone pole and burned him to death.

• So clearly Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is right that gay marriage is "a threat to the nation's survival" and it's not bigots like him that are the problem.

• Religious Right Leader Joel Olsteen thinks that gays will stop being gay if we just love them enough.  Which I guess is better than the Family Research Council calling for the country to pray for the gays to no longer "possess our nation's children."

• Finally, Shorter University in Georgia is now requiring all staff to sign a pledge swearing that they're not gay or they'll be fired.  And that's perfectly legal, which is what you should remember the next time the Employee Non-Discrimination Act comes up for a vote.