Nick Kristof follows up on his recent Times column on gay studies with a piece in today’s edition (“Lovers Under the Skin”).
I hope that religious conservatives will ponder this question: If homosexuality is utterly contrary to God’s law, why is it so embedded in human biology and in the rest of the animal kingdom? […]
No force is more divine than love, and if some people are encoded to love others of the same sex, how can that be unholy? To me, the blasphemy is not in those who want to share their lives with others of the same sex, but rather in anyone presumptuous enough to vilify that love.
In other queer news, as you may know, the Defense Language Institute continues to discharge linguists for being gay. (Yeah, way to help win the war on terrorism.) Over the past two years, that number has reached thirty-seven. The Post profiles one of them (“How ‘Don’t Tell’ Translates”).