“A foolish consistency is a hobgoblin of small minds... who said that?”
Emerson. And it was Felix Frankfurter who said, “It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”
Why is sodomy to be treated equally with religion, philosophy, or politics? In what way is it equal—or even similar? The argument is ridiculous on its face.
Certainly there is no danger that this stuff isn’t going to get heard from if it wants to be heard. It’s yacking everywhere we turn our ear. There’s such a thing as winning a battle but losing the war.
Yes it looks like it has gone past the point of “good men disagreeing on things.” A river of vice is not this. It doesn’t mean the only thing we can do is stone them. But we can’t accept their bullying.