Column by only openly gay staffer for Bobby Jindal provides inside look at anti-gay company guv keep

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by Taylor Huckaby

Jindal’s religious fervor lies at the bottom of a cauldron, deep within a volatile brew of equal parts religion and politics. Over time, the virulently anti-gay company he keeps has come to define him in the same way chameleons take on the color of their surroundings.

It was in a church near LSU called the Chapel on the Campus, where Jindal had his conversion experience, that I received my first lessons in political fury. Jindal’s inner circle, at the time of my involvement, was composed of experts who specialized in leveraging Christian outrage; curating that resentment was an art form they had perfected.

From Baton Rouge, we bused in hundreds of homeschooled kids from Alabama and Mississippi to do our bidding during the 2011 re-election campaign. The campaign even hired a full-time homeschool coordinator, who sat at the desk behind me and often pontificated about Lady Gaga being the Antichrist.

We watched presentations on creationism, and I once spent hours listening to a heated discussion among grown adults regarding the exact location of Noah’s Ark and what its archeological finding could mean for Republican success at the polls.

Read the complete article: http://theadvocate.com/entertainment/12811416-148/guest-column-the-only-openly (Baton Rouge Advocate)