Charming: Candidate's surrogate says Romney will protect America from "militant gays"

I've heard of militant tops and militant bottoms, but I don't think that's necessarily what former MO (ha--I meant Missouri) Senator Jim Talent was referring to when defending his ally's anti-gay record. I've posted in full from Think Progress below. But first I just want to say that is it too hard to accept that there are more pressing issues facing our country then with whom and in what way I have sex? It sounds so ridiculous to write that out, but it is quite literally what they are trying to do. Get-a-life. And go down in flames in Iowa, of course.

Enough of my rant, onto the news:

Today on MSNBC’s Hardball, former senator Jim Talent, now an adviser to Mitt Romney, discussed Romney’s record on gays. Talent maintained that Romney has never been inconsistent on gay rights and has “always” wanted to stop the influence of “the militant gays”:

He’s always had the same position as to regards to the gay agenda. Look, he wants to know people to know he values gay people as people, okay? But he doesn’t want the militant gays to be able to change the cultural institutions of the country.

And actually Chris Matthews does very well in calling Romney out as the soulless panderer that he is. Here's the video, and please note the sparkle in Jim's eye when he says "militant gays". How endearing: