EMAIL OF THE DAY

“Good Lord, Andrew — if you would get your head out of the Republican Party’s ass for five minutes, you’d be able to see that the reason that paleoconservatives don’t differentiate between between the Tennessee proposal to ride the gays out of town and the President’s opposition to gay marriage is that they don’t feel it is a substantive distinction. It’s not necessarily that all Republicans are homophobes (Thanks, Rudy!), but most fundamentally do not believe that gays ARE a minority in the way that Jews or Blacks constitute “legitimate” minorities, and they regard the Tennesseans’ repugnance as falling within the spectrum of acceptable moral expression, just as, in my native Georgia, it used to be regarded as acceptable to force blacks to use separate water fountains. Stop splitting hairs in order to make excuses for them.
Ask Jonah if Hitler’s Germany would’ve been OK had they JUST confined themselves to laws prohibiting Jews from owning businesses, living and/or working in certain places, etc., without moving on to the Final Solution. Would that have been a “legitimate” exercise of local power? And if not, what differentiates those laws from the proposal in Rhea County?” – more feedback on the Letters Page.