GOP has big tent unless you are gay.

Apparently CNN wants in:

CNN said Tuesday that it would run the ad if the group that produced it, the Log Cabin Republicans, removes one photo. That image, on screen for about two seconds at the end of the ad, shows Fred Phelps, an anti-homosexual Baptist minister, holding two signs that say "God Hates Fags" as he protested outside the funeral of Matthew Shepard. Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, was brutally murdered in Wyoming in October 1998.

The dispute highlights how political speech sometimes collides with commercial interests and standards.

Matthew Furman, a CNN spokesman, said the news network determined "that image is just inappropriate." He said CNN may have aired video of Phelps holding the signs during its reporting on the Shepard funeral, but as part of a commercial the network felt it was too offensive.

The Log Cabin Republicans said they would not alter the ad to comply with CNN's objections. Christopher Barron, the group's political director, said "that image is the whole point of the ad. There's no ad without it. It would be like televising the Super Bowl without showing the fourth quarter."

Noted, CNN is the only station to object to the ad.