Big-tent conservative activist David Horowitz responds
to his critics, who accused him of attacking Christians when he
criticized the religious right's demand that the GOP condemn
homosexuality as immoral and support its criminalization. Writes
Horowitz:
Would [anti-gay activist] Robert Knight like the government to investigate every American to determine whether they are homosexual or not and then compel those who are to undergo conversion therapy - or else? This is a prescription for a totalitarian state. No conservative should want any part of it. But this is how Robert Knight sums up the political agenda of social conservatives. Those who agree with him should think again.
Horowitz also scores when he objects to:
the systematic confusion of ethnic, gender, or sexual groups with leftwing political agendas. All blacks are not leftists; all women are not leftists; and all homosexuals are not leftists. To condemn them as such is both intolerant and politically stupid. ...
As a veteran of leftist revolutions, I know the difference between a leftist gay activist and a Log Cabin Republican, and so should Robert Knight. It is not a fiction that homosexuals -- as politically active citizens -- can help Republicans win elections. It is a fact.
After all, he observes, "a higher percentage of homosexuals voted Republican than did blacks, Jews or Hispanics."
Another View of Foley.
Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede is
more critical of Rep. Mark Foley for refusing to discuss his
private life -- or, more to the point, the way in which he framed
his refusal to discuss his private life -- than was the Gay &
Lesbian Victory Fund (see yesterday's item).
--Stephen H. Miller