From hatred springs….? A column by Leonard Pitts that was syndicated across the country last weekend looks at the attitude towards gay people simmering under the surface (and on the surface in some cases) in many parts of this country:
“Ours is a stable and prosperous democracy, so no, I don’t predict train cars full of gays rolling toward death factories. Still, the mindset of aggrieved righteousness that allowed those trains to roll is not dissimilar from that which would ban books about gay people from public school libraries.
Maybe your instinct is to find the comparison unthinkable. Nobody is interning gays, nobody is mass murdering them.
You’re right. But ask yourself: How many would if they could?”
