Popstar Sir Ari Gold was holding hands with a guy on the Short Line bus here in NYC when the driver told them they'd have to move to the back. Seems they were making him uncomfortable. Poor baby! When they refused, the driver called for a state trooper, who informed him they were doing nothing illegal and he had to keep driving. Apparently, other passengers were supportive.

It's comical that the driver felt he had a point. [Sidebar: Awww, Ari is taken, guys!]

This is a really fast-growing issue—civil servants deciding they have a right to not do their jobs based on their personal (and bigoted) beliefs, usually their religious beliefs. There was a clerk (and there will be more) in New York state claiming she would be unable to issue a license to a same-sex couple based on her own beliefs.

She got smacked down and I will look forward to hearing how this ignorant driver gets smacked down.

After the jump, my latest interview with Gold, who I can assure you did not have his slaveboys on the bus with him. (And not that it matters, but just for the uninitiated, he doesn't walk around looking like he looks in the video, either...