Sources close to the Republican National Committee are now openly speculating that televangelist Jimmy Swaggart may be chosen as Bush Jr.'s vice presidential nominee. Swaggart, whose alternating vicious attacks on 'adulterers' and sobbing confessions of his own "youthful indiscretions" entertained millions during the 1980s, had no immediate comment.

Meanwhile, six of nine Republican presidential candidates have signed a formal gay bashing document proposed by the pseudo-religious right wing of their party. The document is similar in tone to the Nazi-sponsored Nuremberg laws passed just prior to World War II to justify Hitler's "final solution."

Republicans Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes, Pat Buchanan (no surprise there), Orrin Hatch, Gary Bauer, and Dan Quayle all signed the document, which attempts to define gays as subhumans not entitled to basic political and social rights.

George Bush, who as front runner was not required to sign the document, immediately moved to placate the right wing groups pushing it, stating that children should be raised only "in families with a woman and a man who are married." [Tough luck, Murphy Brown.]

Bush recently raised eyebrows when he approached gay Texas state Representative Glen Maxey, "put his hands on my shoulders" according to Maxey, "and pulled me in very close, almost nose to nose. Looking in my eyes, he [Bush] said, 'Glen, I value you as a human being. And I want you to know, Glen, that what I say publicly about gay people is not directed at you.'

A press spokesman quickly added that Mr. Bush also had a black acquaintance once.

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