Funny, I thought the whole idea of being gay was to dip your *** in the aforementioned substance. You'd think they'd be delighted but I guess there's no pleasing people. ;-)
Nah, once its on the ground, the thrill of dipping the stick in it is gone.
I think whole manure-spreading prank isn't responsible; after all, when the news picks it up, do you think they will spin it pro-gay or anti-gay? Clearly the pranksters have done a disservice to any legitimate argument against the homosexual lifestyle.
However, the people who are standing with their signs, the people who chose to turn their back and pray, they represent the sort of civil protest that is a bit more tolerable, without engendering positive fallout for the opposing view.
I remember seeing a show on TV once where some dude in Great Britian or some such locale had a beef with the local tax office, so he got his manure spreader and unloaded a ton of brown all over the tax office. Except he was one block from the proper building and buried some other business in the stink.