Michael Kinsley Has a Request
Don't call him
arrogant or elitist.
I mean, look at it this way. (If you don't mind, that is.) It's true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free to choose abortion and where gay relationships have full civil equality with straight ones. And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values -- as deplorable as I'm sure they are -- don't involve any direct imposition on you. We don't want to force you to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same gender, whereas you do want to close out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?
This is the amusing and odd thing about the way the gay marriage debate has been turned around. Never mind the fact that no society in history has ever allowed gay marriage; that the "issue" was nowhere on the radar screen in say, 1985. We're intolerant for not embracing it.
And notice as well, that Kinsley assumes that John Kerry is on his side in this debate. I assume so as well, but to do so also requires that you assume that he's lying when he says he opposes gay marriage. And two of his precious blue states (reality-based states, they would call it), Michigan and Oregon, voted to ban gay marriage. Oh, so sorry! Guess they're part of Arrogant America as well?
