Did you say the home-coming king was a SHE?

When students voted a lesbian couple as home-coming king and queen at San Diego's Patrick Henry High School two weeks ago, perhaps they were just too young and naive to know that controversy was inevitable. If it had just been Haileigh Adams, at right, elected queen, nothing would have been the problem. But when Adams' girlfriend, Rebeca Arellano, won king at a big pep rally on the Friday, the bigots (or should I say bellends) started complaining.

Adams and Arellano's peers cheered for the girls at the home-coming dance, and a teacher had reportedly told Arellano, "Today, school is a bit better because of you girls." Nevertheless, Patrick Henry High has been subjected to a deluge of hate mail, angry emails, and threatening phone calls since news of the lesbian home-coming couple broke. Some of the calls are coming from people who don't even live in California. This is not cool, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the threatening messages are coming from Texas. What is popular is not always right and what is right is not always popular, but those player-haters need to think before they start gay-bashing. The parents who are engaging in this homophobic conduct are poor role models for their children, and boy is Mr. T going to be busy pitying a lot of fools. Disabilities, gender, and racial characteristics are not really things we choose, and neither is homosexuality. In fact, we don’t even choose to be born.