Clean the filter

Recently I’ve been hearing about the American Family Association’s boycott of McDonald’s because of a their supposed endorsement of the “Homosexual Agenda”.  It reminded me of just a few weeks ago when the AFA was in the news because of their commitment to reporting the news from a “Christian perspective.”  To do that they often run filters on news reports to remove offensive words.  The following is a recent example when that didn’t work out so well.  This is copied from Foxsports.com

THE American Family Association has a strict policy to replace the word "gay" with "homosexual" on its news website - but it created a problem with sprinter Tyson Gay.

The association's computer's auto-corrected the US sprint star's name to Tyson Homosexual.

Here's an extract of an Associated Press story as it ran on the association's OneNewsNow Christian news website:

Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has. His time of 9.68 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials Sunday doesn't count as a world record, because it was run with the help of a too-strong tailwind.

Here's what does matter: Homosexual qualified for his first Summer Games team and served notice he's certainly someone to watch in Beijing.

"It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Homosexual said. "I'm glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me."

The embarrassing blunder has since been fixed, although it's still visible on the site's search page.

You can read the original article here (there is a great picture there that would probably make the filter explode).