I’m not a huge gossip hound, but when I came across the Page Six dirt about Busta Rimes’ homophobic freak after being approached and, gasp, touched on the shoulder by an effeminate gay man, I wanted Kanye West to step up and give Busta a talking to. On the whole, the hip-hop community has been dubbed a homophobic cross-section of entertainment. But Kanye West, in an MTV interview last summer, made a point of saying that he used to throw around the word fag, and was generally homophobic until he it occurred to him that he didn’t want to be a source of discrimination, one similar (but not the same as) the discrimination people of color face. West said he saw the light after finding out that his cousin was gay. All we need is for every homophobe to have their favorite cousin come out!

Maybe if there were more commercials out there like that of the United Church of Christ, people wouldn’t get so freaked out about LGBTQ folk. This progressive protestant denomination has a commercial on the way that depicts a motley crew of church-goers, including a black woman with a baby, a gay couple, a man seemingly of Middle Eastern descent, and an elderly person each successively being catapulted out of the pew after someone presses an eject button. The screen then says, “God doesn’t reject people. Neither do we.” Nice to know LGBTQ folk are a powerful enough commodity to finally have religion pitched to us.

According to GLAAD, the commercial will be shown on cable networks, but isn’t allowed on ABC, CBS and NBC. The NY Times wrote about the commercial calling it “provocative.” Estelle Getty’s ankle-length muumuu would be provocative to the Times. The commercial will supposedly air on April 3 on BET, CNN, the History Channel, Nick at Nite, TNT and USA.