“The ugly truth is that this goes on right here," he said. "It's the migrant worker unable to pay off the debt to his trafficker. ... The teenage girl — beaten, forced to walk the streets. This should not be happening in America."

These were words spoken in a speech by President Barack Obama at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 25. He was speaking about human trafficking, which he also said should be called by its real name: “modern slavery.”

You all know that Chick-fil-A will never end their contributions to anti-gay organizations, right? You know that no matter what they may say and however they change the wording in their comments, money from the customers will continue to flow to the anti-gay Christian groups bent on saving America, right?

It’s not about the chicken or that cute little cow in their commercials; it’s about what it’s always been about – hating on the gays.

Homophobia is part and parcel of male professional sports. Gay epithets are so pervasive among players that they are sadly totally unaware of the weight and meaning of the terms.

“It didn’t have significance to the way that’s being interpreted right now,” Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar stated through a Spanish interpreter. “That’s not the significance that I put into it. That’s a word used often within teams. It’s a word without meaning, the way we use it.”

(Editor's note: Jonathan Holmes is a member of the American Military Partner Association, the nation’s resource and support network for the partners and spouses of LGBT servicemembers and veterans. He and his partner, an active duty sailor stationed at Camp Pendleton, live in Temecula, Calif.)