When it comes to intolerance of gays.
Fearing they would be the laughingstock of New York’s underworld, a mafia turncoat testified in court Wednesday that he killed his mob boss because he engaged in gay sex.
Anthony Capo, a former soldier for the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante family, which is often described as the real-life “Sopranos,” said he killed John “Johnny Boy” D’Amato after finding out about his secret life, the New York Post reports.
“Nobody’s gonna respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business,” Capo told jurors in Manhattan federal court ….
I’m sure Sen. Santorum would deplore the outcome, even while appreciating the sentiment.
Hmmm. So, I suspect, would a lot of folks in the Pentagon.
Maybe that should give them pause.
(via Volokh)