re: #15 quickjustice

I subscribe to City Journal, and I know the editor. (Taranto is a former editor of City Journal B/T/W.) Their essayists are generally of a very high calibre.

This writer seems obsessed with homosexuals. Does it occur to him that fundamentalist Muslims threaten homosexuals as well as other groups? Strange.

He mentions it, but then goes off claiming that,

Contrary to what Bawer says, it is not true that “first they came for the gays.” First they came for the Christians, and radical homosexual activists were in the vanguard of the liberal storm troopers who silenced the Christians in Europe.

I’d like to see a teensy tiny bit of proof of that, particularly since he then claims that America’s Christian fundamentalist heritage is what keeps us going against the Islamic hordes. I don’t think it’s too extreme to note that he will then probably see danger in American ‘radical homosexual activists’ asking for anything—poor Christians!

Not a smart critique, merely an ideological one.