Dear gay and bisexual men (and probably a few of us women): Rapper T.I., of Atlanta, Ga., has a message for us. Gay jokes aren't offensive, we just have no sense of humor.

Don't worry! Mr. T.I. didn't come up with this philosophy all by his lonesome. No, he snagged it straight from Tracy Morgan's standup routine in Tennessee that got him so much bad press this past June … The one where Morgan said he'd stab his son to death if he spoke with an effeminate voice when he came out to his father.

“Man, I will say this,” T.I. told Vibe magazine. “The funniest joke I ever heard Tracy say during a stand-up was, ‘C’mon man, I think gay people are too sensitive. If you can take a dick, you can take a joke.’ That shit was funny to me. And it’s kind of true.”

... Kind of true?

Morgan later apologized, saying his joke “went too far and was not funny in any context” (while repeatedly assuring his detractors that he's an “equal opportunity jokester”), but we're not expecting an apology from the T.I. camp. Why? ’Cause according to T.I., this is a case for First Amendment aficionados.

“[The gays] are like,‘If you have an opinion against us, we’re gonna shut you down.’” says T.I. “That’s not American. If you’re gay you should have the right to be gay in peace, and if you’re against it you should have the right to be against it in peace.”