all the news and commentary now on countdown. what planet have i landed on? good evening from new york. as right-wing politicians ramp p their ongoing assault on gay rooi rights and gay americans, a disturbing scenario tonight, sharon engel, a republican senate candidate for nevada who opposes gay adoption refusing to say tonight whether she would forcibly remove children from their homes if they have already been adopted by gay parents. a tax on the conservative judge who struck down california s gay marriage ban, but, first, a question of an obscure bible over government pact and what we know and what we don t know about how some of the nation s leading republicans answered. the associated press last night obtained engel s answer to that questionnaire. among them, engel s opposition to laws that let gay americans adopt children. today we asked edgel s campaign whether her composition to gay