I use gay jokes quite a lot, but I have made an concious effort to cut down and stop using the word "gay" to describe something I don't like. I never use the f-word h: IMO, I can't see opposition to equal rights for gay couples as anything other than bigotry. Period. Equality isn't a fad, and the issue isn't going away until equality is achieved.

As for redneck-bashing... it's going to keep on happening, just as hippie bashing and homo bashing and every other type of shit-talking out there. It's our constitutional right to talk shit