Countdown until the wingnuts try to score political points off of Heath Ledger's death

What do you want to bet it's only a matter of time before the likes of Peter Labarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality or the Concerned Women for America try to claim that Heath Ledger's tragic death had something to do with his having played gay in Brokeback Mountain?
After all, both of those groups couldn't rush out press releases fast enough criticizing the gay community and trying to incite anti-gay panic after the AP and pretty much every other media outlet got the story wrong about the MRSA/staph infection supposedly threatening to burst out of the gay community and into the general population.
So it's not that hard for me to see them trying to claim either that Ledger's having played gay was evidence of his immorality (hence his apparently drug-induced death) or that playing gay caused Ledger to come in close contact with the gay community thereby leading him to engage in risky behaviors. That might not be exactly how they spin it, but mark my words, they'll come up with some other hateful line of thinking. There is no tragedy awful enough that these anti-gay nuts won't try to score some points off of it.
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