In short, he's a bigot.
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2001/mar01/mar26/4_thurs/news8thursday.html
SFGate suspends staffers over sex column
SFGate.com, the web site of the San Francisco Chronicle, has suspended three members of its staff in a flap over an over-the-top column. The piece’s author, Mark Morford, writes a short daily column, called the Morning Fix, that takes a caustic look at off-the-wall news items. But this particular piece crossed the line, in the opinion of Robert Cauthorn, the Chronicle’s vice president for digital media. Morford chose to write about an incident in Philadelphia in which a 24-year-old teaching intern is accused of performing a sex act upon a 13-year-old boy while his 14-year-old friend looked on. Morford wrote that he felt the experience might not really be a traumatic one for a teenage boy. Cauthorn disapproved of the column, which went out in an email to 13,000 people that morning. The column was pulled from the web site and from the rest of SFGate’s morning emails. SFGate’s news and features editors have been suspended without pay. Morford will be paid during his involuntary absence because he belongs to a union.