Stanley: Thanks for that reminder. I have just read (actually, in all but
a couple of cases, re-read–”Men more often need to be reminded than
instructed”) those 2001 posts with profit. They leave little unsaid.
Except, perhaps this meta-observation: That as the same-sex marriage debate
takes off and issues like those in the 2001 posts begin to get people’s
attention, the age-old and (so far as I know) universal social disapproval
of homosexuality will come to seem more, not less, reasonable. The
homosexual-rights activists are in a period of overshoot. They have
banished the old regime of illegality, persecution and blackmail, and a good
thing too. Now, however, they are trying to effect radical changes in
society, changes which huge numbers of people will not stomach. As I have
said before:
“Homosexuals would, I believe, be wise to lower the volume, cherish their
private lives, withdraw the more contentious litigation, and stop ‘pushing
the envelope.’ Envelopes can break.”