Michael Kinsley Speaks Up for the Misunderstood HomophobesS
The proponents of marriage equality have not just won. They have
routed the opposition. It’s a moment to be gracious, not
vindictive.  There are those who would have you think that gays
and liberals are conducting some sort of jihad against organized
Christianity and that gay marriage is one of the battlefields.
That is a tremendous exaggeration. But it’s not a complete
fantasy. And for every mouth that opens, a dozen stay clamped
shut.    "First known mention," you say? But we are not here to
argue about the past. We are here to talk about the terrible
things that are being done today, in the name of gay marriage.
The occasion for Kinsley's distress was the news that Dr. Ben
Carson, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins,
would not be delivering the commencement address at the Hopkins
School of Medicine.  Carson, a heroic and innovative surgeon,
plans to quit medicine this summer, apparently to focus on a
burgeoning career as a conser