Shalit is a coward.
Not only are there gay sexual predators...but they sometimes intentionally get AIDS...so they can "leave a gift" for those they abuse.
He didn't get down on his knees and beg forgiveness which I suppose says something. I think the mistake he made was assuming he was free to speak his mind since he has an openly gay son. Homosexuality is something that one can not be honest about because being honest is a threat to all forms of liberal hedonism. Truth is a great disinfectant and sexuality as a disease is what is being celebrated as modern sexual liberation so they are rightly fearful. They do not realize that the more they push the more they lose ground. People are fighting back with their votes and someday homosexuality will be cast back into the darkness of sexual abuse where it was born screaming, filthy, and covered in stench and blood.