Coke ad pro-gay? Colbert notes that makes sense

In his usual sarcastic faux-right wing conservative mode, Stephen Colbert last night slammed Coke for its Super Bowl version of the iconic “America the Beautiful” song. Detailing a litany of right wing whiners furious with the soda behemoth, Colbert mocked former US Congressman Allen West, a Breitbart pundit, and, finally, asked, “For Pete’s sake, since when are gays allowed to gay up ‘America the Beautiful’?”

“I mean, if the woman who wrote the song, Katharine Lee Bates saw this ad, she would be disgusted, and so would have life partner Katharine Coman, with whom she lived for 25 years, in then what was referred to as a ‘Boston Marriage.’”

“Folks, that was not a gay marriage, it was the 19th century. Women could not be lesbians back then. They couldn’t even vote — or as lesbians called it back then, ‘scissoring.’”