Excerpt
From G
ay Marriage:
Gay marriage is at bottom not so much a civil rights issue as a civil responsibility issue. If the first "homosexual agenda" focused on gay rights—the right to have sex, the right to walk the streets in safety, the right to keep a job—the second focuses on gay responsibilities: marriage, military service, the rearing and mentoring of the young. If the rights agenda asked for protections, the responsibility agenda asks for obligations. Could that be why it arouses such fierce resistance? Oddly—I'd never have guessed—the responsibility agenda seems to meet stiffer resistance from much of straight America than the rights agenda ever did. At bottom hardly anyone wants to see homosexuals harassed, but treating them as grown-ups seems harder to accept.
America has taken mighty strides to end homosexual victimhood, a fact for which I will always be grateful. What remains is to close the gap between victimhood and adulthood.