June 15, 2007
Another Conservative Victory for Human Rights
On no issue is history moving faster than on “gay rights” — an already antiquated term for full and equal participation and acceptance of gay men and women in American life….Kids grow up today with gay friends, gay parents, gay parents of friends and gay friends of parents. If only blacks and whites were as thoroughly mixed together in society as gays and straights are. Kids are also exposed constantly to an entertainment culture in which gays are not merely accepted but in some ways dominant. You rarely see a reality show without a gay cast member, while Rosie O’Donnell is a coveted free agent and Ellen DeGeneres is America’s sweetheart. The notion that gays must be segregated out of the military for the sake of our national security must strike Americans younger than, say, 40 as simply weird, just as we of the previous generation find the rules of racial segregation weird. (O.K., run that by me again: they needed separate drinking fountains because … why?)
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The fact that a gay person can be born into a straight family has made the assimilation easier.
Mary Cheney’s a good example. For Dick and Lynne Cheney to have a black daughter, they’d have to go out of their way to adopt a child of another race, which I don’t see happening.