[BIRDS]

It's all about the trendy, impresse-yer-neighbor stuff for the New York Times, and, oh, yeah, being GAY.

What they miss is that they're saturated with a closed-society culture, as is, for the most part, San Francisco and a few other of our larger cities, simply because the minority culture is the most outspoken and generally publicity hounds. Most cities have this one aspect to publicize because the alternatives are just too grim: down and out unless you're in the 9-to-5 visitor groups.

And the NYT thinks because it's in their face, it's everywhere. Which the rest of us know to be wrong and actually disadvantaged but it's hard to tell that to anyone who defines their worth by their flat and their furniture and shoes and sparkly bits.

What, again, was the issue here? And, who even reads the NYT any more? I know I don't.

[Diago]

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[Morgan's Raider]

For example, Shorto notes, traditional-marriage activists Jim and Evalena Gray still have their Christmas lights up in March because, says Evalena, "the grandchildren like them." They're "semiretired opticians" who do their infernal "ANTIGAY" work from their basement—"paneled, wall-to-wall-carpeted, decorated with Jim Gray's Confederate memorabilia (a portrait of Jeb Stuart, framed currency)."

The Grays' fellow traditional-marriage advocates Laura and Dave Clark live with their four children in "a ranch house...tucked cozily into the back of a cul-de-sac in a 1970's housing development," Shorto observes. "Inside, it is wall-to-wall carpeting and hand-me-down furnishings." No books to speak of, but "snapshots of the kids cover the refrigerator door. The couple's wedding album is prominently displayed on a table in the living room. Dave works for the federal government. Laura home-schools the 7-year-old twins, Grace and Cole, while also looking after 5-year-old Kayla and 3-year-old Jacob."

When their fellow traditional-marriage activists come over to meet Shorto, the Clarks prepare quite a spread: "sliced lunch meats, hamburger buns, tomato and onion slices, bowls of pretzels and chips, cookies and several two-quart plastic bottles of soda."

Oh my God! What a terrile lifestyle - worse than we're treating those poor, misunderstood murderers at that Gitmo place...

[Tax-chick]

Ghastly ... simply ghastly ... I expected him to say they shopped at Wal-mart, too!

[conservonator]

The writer has many, many issues, not the least of which seems to be with "wall-to-wall carpet". I don't think he'd like my house either: wall-to-wall carpet, children, pictures of children, crucifixes, straight people, etc.

[Smokin' Joe]

What's most telling about Shorto's piece is the way in which he portrays the "ANTIGAYS"—who are, of course, universally Christian (no "ANTIGAY" Jews exist in the New York Times' world, despite Orthodox Jewry's opposition to homosexual marriage)—as working-class idiots.

Just D@mn! I reckon that makes me too stupid to buy their paper.

[te lucis]

I am a Christian, a working class zero, and anti-gay, and I don't mind being known as such.

[Right in Wisconsin]

What couple do you think is happier and more content? Which couples will have healthier and happier children? Which couples will have eternal life? Which couples will receive God's grace and blessings? Who is the most likely to have psychological problems and boughts of depression? Who is in such a state of complete lack of joy that they actually think displaying your children's pictures on the fridge is something of an embarrasment? What type of people are these pathetic excuses for mankind? When I hear such pathetic stuff, I can't help but pray for these people for the strength to stop taking satan up on his temptations.