Mother of 9/11 Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham responds to Carson Daly's Jet Blue gay "joke." [View all]

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9/11 hero's mom offended by Daly joke

According to Entertainment Weekly, Alice Hoagland, the mother of Flight 93 passenger Mark Bingham, released a statement saying, "Gay men and women come in every shape and size: short, tall, slender, stout, delicate and powerful. They do not deserve to be stereotyped, nor categorized."

Bingham was one of the passengers who charged the cockpit of his hijacked flight on the morning of 9/11.

"Yes, my gay son was known in our family for bringing me flowers on my birthday and Mother’s Day," Hoagland said. "He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of a doomed Boeing 757 to face knife-wielding Islamist thugs in a hijacked cockpit."

Daly apologized via Twitter as well as in a statement given to GLAAD. "The fact that I have hurt anyone is devastating," Daly's statement said. "I’m not that guy. I’m proud to be an ally of the LGBT community and will continue to fight with them."

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/30/911-heros-mom-offended-by-daly-joke/