Jim Martin over at the America magazine blog takes issue with Fox’s John Gibson’s comments following the death of actor Heath Ledger:

Ledger’s most famous role was playing Ennis Del Mar, the gay cowboy in “Brokeback Mountain,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination. In the film, he says aloud to his dead friend, “I wish I knew how to quit you.”

Yesterday on his radio show, Mr. Gibson played that audio clip and said, “Aaah, well, I guess he found out how to quit you!” He later called Ledger a “weirdo.”

You can hear it here: “Gibson on Ledger” Apparently, a person’s death is laughable, and he forfeits his dignity as a person, if he accepted a film role as a gay man. Will any religious leaders concerned about “Christian values,” any Catholic leaders concerned about “human dignity,” call for censure against such hateful comments by Mr. Gibson?