Following is a letter I sent to the editor of The American Spectator because of this nifty piece of yellow journalism. (Read the article if you feel like being incensed.)
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I will admit he's awfully good on the details. One might think . . . Oh never mind.
Unfortunately Mr. Yale seems to think that such a pattern of events could occur only between gay males. Do give us a break. A meretricious, philandering, heterosexual husband or wife could set the same chain of events in motion. In fact, I would wager that one would need not dig too deep (either in Los Angeles or elsewhere) to uncover such a lurid story.
Mr. Yale's tale does little than betray his swallowing whole every gay stereotype ever laid before his astigmatic and cataract plagued eyes. As I said, he's awfully good on the details -- probably because he lifted them from any of a number of media products he's consumed, which informed him of how life really is in big, nasty, queer Los Angeles. (Thank goodness he's safe at home in Scottsdale!)
"Now, class," he snidely asks, "what have we accomplished, other than a financial train wreck?" Oh golly, let's see: we've allowed two adults to do with their lives and their assets whatever they might choose; we've removed from an infantilized, three-fifths position an important segment of our society; we've respected the wishes of the Framers that the federal government allow a person to be left alone to do as he or she wishes as long as it does not bother another. Shall I go on?
If this is the best argument that gay marriage opponents can come up with, well, I reckon they've already lost the debate.
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