Learned Helplessness

By The Daily Dish

A gay state senator in Minnesota won't support a bill providing gay couples with many of the same rights that straight couples have. I presume he doesn't have a husband. His reason? The state has "bigger problems" right now. And you can't walk and chew gay at the same time?

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/02/learned-helplessness/205495/