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We needed milk and such. Waiting in the checkout line ahead of me and my young one was a man and his child; the kid appeared to be maybe ten years old.

The father was explaining something that they must have heard on the car radio, from what I could overhear. He was telling the boy that Jerry Falwell once said that one of the Teletubbies was a homosexual, adding that a homosexual was a man who "married another man instead of a woman like mommy."

The youth took that in stride and said "I know," but asked his father "what else did that man, the one who died, say?" The father added that Falwell didn't like those kind of people and he said that when they died god would send them to hell.

The boy thought about that for just a moment then said "that fucking son of a bitch."

My young one looked at me, I looked at them, and we giggled in half-voices.

After we paid up and walked to the car my child said "they must be liberals."

"Like me?" I asked.

"Like us," my pride-and-joy replied.