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"Equal opportunity offender?\r\nAfter a tremendous public outcry, Tracy Morgan has apologized for violent, anti-gay jokes he made during a stand-up routine in Nashville on June 3.\r\nBut Christy Frank, a Morgan fan who was at the show, tells Us Weekly that the 30 Rock star&amp;apos;s rant covered broad territory.\r\n\r\n&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;I definitely was uncomfortable when he started going off,&amp;quot; Frank said. &amp;quot;He was being offensive to a  lot of different groups, not just gay people.&amp;quot;\r\nDuring his bit, Morgan&amp;#xA0; joked that he&amp;apos;d stab his son if he ever said he was gay.\r\n&amp;quot;He also started going off against the anti-bullying campaign - that&amp;apos;s a really serious issue,&amp;quot; Frank said. &amp;quot;He started going off on anti-bullying campaigns saying they were BS and they needed to stop being chickens about everything. He said [GLBT people] should be able to stand up for themselves.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMany audience members &amp;quot;got up and left,&amp;quot; Frank confirmed. &amp;quot;No one was booing him. Everyone was laughing, but you could tell they were uncomfortable.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;It was a little bit nuts. Definitely poor judgment on his part...It was way more offensive and explicit than I was expecting.&amp;quot;\r\nIn his public apology, Morgan, 42, said, &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m not a hateful person and don&amp;apos;t condone any kind of violence against others...even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBut many groups charge that Morgan&amp;apos;s apology isn&amp;apos;t enough. Says Jody Huckaby, Executive Director of PFLAG Nation: &amp;quot;At a time when bullying and &amp;#xA0;harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth is at an all-time high &amp;#x2013; when kids are being assaulted, are dying &amp;#x2013; to joke about committing violence against a child is outrageous and reprehensible. As a celebrity, Mr. Morgan needs to understand that his words have power.&amp;quot;\r\nAdds GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios: &amp;quot;Tracy Morgan must not only apologize, but assure us that this won&amp;apos;t happen again and send a clear message to Americans that anti-gay violence is no joke.&amp;quot;\r\nMore 30 Rock News\r\nGLAAD has offered to arrange meetings between Morgan and families who have lost children to anti-gay violence.\r\n&amp;quot;If Tracy Morgan is sincere, he should take us up on meeting these families who have lost loved ones to the type of violence that he is mocking,&amp;quot; Barrios said. &amp;quot;Perhaps by hearing their stories, he will learn that while we all love humor, this is no laughing matter.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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