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On Thursday, National Public Radio's Morning Edition decided to revisit the censorship controversy over the National Portrait Gallery removing a video image of ants crawling on a crucifix in an ideological exhibit promoting homosexuality. (The show closes Sunday.) The irony or the outrage in this story is that the “villains” of this piece — conservative Christians and Republican politicians — were not allowed to speak. NPR reporter Neda Ulaby quoted only the two left-wing curators of the exhibit, a left-wing critic for the Village Voice, and a left-wing man protesting the apparently ruined exhibit. The most outrageous part was this soundbite of co-curator Jonathan Katz: “It's no longer the same game that it was 15, 20 years ago, where you simply had to point out the homo and yell 'Kill it!' And the mob attacked. Now, you have to clothe your homophobia in something else.” A story this biased makes it worth pointing out that Neda Ulaby is a lesbian journalist and activist who found this NPR job through the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. The Advocate celebrated a list of openly gay people with cool careers and explained: When she quit as managing editor of the Chicago gay paper Windy City Times to join National Public Radio in 2000, she recalls, “I went from having my own staff to being the mail opener for the arts desk.” But Ulaby stayed on after that first month, and within a few years she worked up to her current position as arts reporter. “I say a prayer of thankfulness every day, multiple times,” says Ulaby, who connected with NPR through a workshop at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in 1999. Ulaby is a regular at gay activist confabs. She and openly gay NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro moderated panels at the International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference in 2006. She was a panelist at the NLGJA convention in 2009 in Montreal, touted for how she works “every day to promote balanced and responsible news coverage.” That would sound very odd — but what NLGJA means by “balanced” is actually Orwellian. It means “promotes homosexuality without balance.”