Dan Savage: Cotton Has ‘Bigot Blender Brain’ for Saying U.S. Better on Gay Issues than Iran

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WAGNER: “Dan, I want to ask you just before we let you go, in terms of this being a bell that can or cannot be unrung in terms of people’s positions on this. Sen. Tom Cotton on CNN yesterday said ‘I think it’s important we have a sense of perspective. In Iran they hang you for the crime of being gay.’ I don’t know that you can lower the bar on human and civil rights bar much more than what happens in Iran. What were your thoughts on that? Do you think gay Americans will remember where politicians were at this moment in two years when there’s a presidential election?” 
SAVAGE: “I do. You’ve seen Jeb Bush and the entire Republican field endorse these bigot-enabling acts. Chris Christie today, endorsed this act. Rand Paul, the libertarian, has endorsed anti-gay legislation. And gay people are going to remember. Yes, we do need to remember it’s worse for queer people in Russia. Worse for queer people in Nigeria. And a lot of queer people here in America work hard on these issues, myself included — agitate, and try to push that in the consciousness of the public. They want America to get credit for being better on gay issues, and will point to how bad it is elsewhere to justify making it worse here? How do you — how do you rationalize that? Except through some sort of bigot blender brain.” 
WAGNER: “Bigot blender brain.”