NH radio host, blogger’s attack on gays condemned

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NH radio host, blogger’s attack on gays condemned

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Rhetoric over gay marriage is escalating with an attack on New Hampshire’s Democratic Party chairman — who is gay — followed by an apology and then condemnation by a gay activist.

Mo Baxley, executive director of the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition, called Monday for Republicans to muzzle conservative radio host and blogger Doug Lambert. Lambert called Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley derogatory names while a webcam was streaming to the Internet last weekend. He later apologized on the blog GraniteGrok, but Baxley said the Republican Party should denounce his comments as hateful to gays a month before the state’s gay marriage law takes effect.

Party spokesman Ryan Williams condemned Lambert’s comments as “completely inappropriate, offensive and hurtful.”