What?! 

What?!

"Will we rule ourselves, or be ruled by unelected black-robed oligarchs who disregard the Constitution to impose their own political agenda on the country?" (Ken Connor, Family Research Council in USA Today)

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I must be ... careful here. While I'm actually quite pleased with the Supreme Court's ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, it's actually beside the point. I'm more interested in the trend of trashing whatever government institution that has upset you as anti-American, anti-democratic, or otherwise.

I should ask Mr. Connor his opinion of the Congressional "Zippergate" debacle. It's amazing how badly social conservatives react to sex issues, and it's even more amazing how badly they can sabotage their own issues. Homosexuals never really mattered to me until I endured the 1992 general election in Oregon. Gay has never been so popular as it has since Christian obsessives have made their most recent push against the right of human beings to love, or to just plain enjoy themselves.

And here's the thing: After a decade of confused and confusing homosexual-related politics, how is it again that the granting of respect and liberty is a threat to freedom?