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(Nuttier than peanut butter: David Benkof, formerly David Bianco. Photo credit: Rex Wockner.)

Gays Defend Marriage: Whitest Web Site Ever?

Earlier this week, Pam Spaulding reported on her web site that David Benkof was shutting down his Gays Defend Marriage web site.

Benkof, the genuinely nutty and confused gay man devoted to single-handedly stopping gay marriage by pathologizing and misrepresenting the morals and sexuality of his brethren, through inaccurate opinion columns in daily papers such as the SF Chronicle and NY Post, was also taken to task for his lie by Wayne Besen and his Truth Wins Out site.

About the closure of Benkof's site, Spaulding said:

I'm not quite sure what to make of this development, because David Benkof, advocate of "LGBT folks who support marriage as the union of husband and wife," has announced that he's shutting his blog down and seems to reject the push for Prop 8 in California (but still isn't sure whether he'd vote for it?!).

I'm not sure whether to laugh or feel sorry for the man, but I'm glad he's not tossing his support to the California marriage amendment effort.

And it appears Benkof has kept his promise to shutter his misguided site, while also going one step further in erasing his hatred of his gay brothers and sisters.

The Gays Defending Marriage opening page, and all the other pages there that I had bookmarked, are indeed gone from the web, but what strikes me as most curious is that instead of getting a dead-link and message saying "Server Not Found," you open totally white pages.

Wanna see his last post? It's gone, but check out the polar bear in a blizzard whiteness that remains.

How about glancing at one of his June blog entries on the gay marriage developments in California? He's made it disappear, and now only white nothingness shows up at the link.

Knowing how much Benkof absolutely adores the limelight, don't expect to remain silent or absent from the media or web for very long. And count your blessings we have bloggers Spaulding and Besen, and other fine LGBT bloggers, keeping track of Benkof and challenging his obnoxious nonsense.