THE ANALOGY

Jonah Goldberg approvingly quotes an email from a reader at NRO. Here’s what the reader thinks of mentioning that someone’s openly gay:

Everybody in the room may know that someone present has a family member who is profoundly retarded, or–less innocently–a drunken gambling addict cheating on a spouse.

So an openly gay person in a ten-year faithful relationship is akin to a heterosexual adulterous alcoholic gambler. And the outrage at Kerry’s benign statement of fact has nothing to do with anti-gay prejudice, does it?