One of Ours

Those traditional conservatives among you who find laudable or even applaud that I and many others who comment on this weblog have broken with our "old ideas" concerning Republicans and foreign policy, might consider what it would take for you to break with your "old ideas" concerning Gay Marriage (assuming you oppose it). You might find interesting the yearning for a more normal domestic and emotional life expressed by homosexuals in this article from this morning's Los Angeles Times: Nothing but 'I Do' Will Do Now for Many Gays.

The most memorable (and frightening) image for me of the entire War on Terror was the shaky video tape of the woman in the burqa being shot in that soccer stadium in Kabul by the Taliban at point blank range. It crystallized for me that what we are fighting against is psychotic intolerance and that the aggression against women and homosexuals is at the forefront of that.