...that is, a story of real life in conservative America, not just the Mom/Apple Pie crap that Limbaugh and Hannity try to sell.

(AP) OLYMPIA, Washington - Legislators are demanding an apology from a businessman who made anti-gay comments to a group visiting the Capitol for an AIDS awareness day.

"Looks like it's anal sex week," Lou Novak loudly remarked as a group from the Life Long AIDS Alliance walked though the state House office building.

The group included a 13-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. The boy's family had recently been forced to move because of anti-gay prejudice in his neighborhood.

Novak is first vice president of the Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound, a landlords' organization.

And what, exactly, does this guy have against kids with AIDS?

The leader of the AIDS awareness group, Suzie Saxton of Yakima, followed the man into the public Capitol cafeteria and asked him what he'd said. She said Novak repeated his comment and told her people shouldn't engage in irresponsible sex and ask for public money.

Novak, you might want to know, does not regret saying it, much less thinking it, but is very sorry that people who don't agree with a medical philosophy out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail actually heard him.

Novak said he regrets his remarks and will write a letter of apology.

"The remark was made in private and they just happened to overhear it, and that's very unfortunate," Novak said Wednesday night. "I'm certainly sorry that anyone was offended by it."

Thursday, Novak resigned from the Association after its president wrote a letter of apology to several legislators.

Lovely.