Obama and his Administration are really stepping in "it"!

Boy this President and his Administration can't stop stepping in "it"...first he infers blacks are too stupid to watch weekly Political shows and now she offends the gays......and they are all upset with N.Y. Governor Candidate Paladino....Maybe they should start looking in the MIRROR!...but it's ok...they just "misspoke"

Valerie Jarrett apologizes for remark about gay teen

CloseBy ABBY PHILLIP | 10/14/10 10:50 AM EDT Updated: 10/14/10 4:06 PM EDT

White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett apologized Thursday morning for referring to a gay teen who committed suicide as having made a “lifestyle choice.”

The comments were made to Washington Post reporter Jon Capehart in an interview Wednesday in which she discussed the recent spate of teen suicides linked to bullying because of sexual orientation. Jarrett praised the parents of Justin Aaberg, a Minnesota teenager who killed himself, for “doing a good job” supporting their son, but she inadvertently stepped into the highly contentious debate about whether homosexuality is innate or a conscious decision.

“These are good people. They were aware that their son was gay; they embraced him, they loved him, they supported his lifestyle choice,” Jarrett told Capehart. “But when he left the home and went to school, he was tortured by his classmates.”

Blogger Michael Petrelis slammed Jarrett for the reference, accusing her of taking “talking points from Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council,” a socially conservative organization that condemns homosexuality.

Jarrett, in an e-mail to Capehart, said that she “misspoke” when she described Aaberg’s sexual identity as a lifestyle choice.

“I meant no disrespect to the LGBT community, and I apologize to any who have taken offense at my poor choice of words,” Jarrett said. “Sexual orientation and gender identity are not a choice, and anyone who knows me and my work over the years knows that I am a firm believer and supporter in the rights of LGBT Americans.”

CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly said Jarrett apologized Wednesday morning. She apologized Thursday morning.