MIke: You miss the point. The decency and forbearance of ordinary

Americans is used against them by extremists. That’s how extremism

advances. You wouldn’t want to exclude women from participating in college

sports, would you? Of course not! Neither would I. Fine, SO LET’S PASS A

FEDERAL LAW FORCING COLLEGES TO SHUT DOWN MEN’S SPORTS PROGRAMS… With

results that have been documented by our own Kathy Lopez and others. It’s

ju-jitsu–you use the enemy’s own strength to pull him over. The

extremist-homosexualist lobbies are extremely skilled at this. Just look at

the word “gay-bashing.” It ought to mean whacking someone over the head

with a baseball bat. What it actually means–is taken to mean by ordinary

Americans–is the utterance of anything opposed to the

extremist-homosexualist cause. (It was used against me just five minutes

ago in an e-mail, because I wondered aloud about diseases specific to male

homosexuals.)

Another part of the strategy of extremists (of all kinds) is to make end

runs around the First Amendment. Yes, you can say what you like: but if

you cannot say it (a) in a school or university, (b) in a major broadsheet

newspaper, (c) on any major network or cable TV channel, or even (d) in a

respectable conservative magazine, what use is the First Amendment? And, as

you surely know, there are a myriad things–ranging from the preposterous

through the debatable to the indisputably true–that you cannot say in any

of those places. You can, of course, go and stand out on Lexington Avenue

and shout them at the passing motorists. Are you really willing to settle

for that?