Stanley: This recent astonishing turn in the polls illustrates something I
have long been arguing: that homosexuals are better off when people don’t
think about them too much. I believe previous polls included a large cohort
of people who just preferred not to think about homosexuality at all, and
who gave un-thought-out answers, or default “correct” answers. When you
force the issue on people’s attention, though, as the news media have been
doing this past few weeks, that don’t-really-want-to-think-about-it cohort
breaks much more negative than positive.