Catching up with Rod Dreher

• Why isn’t Obama a slam-dunk? Since so many people rightly hate the GOP. The answer, if I may say so, is the fifth comment down.
• Camille Paglia on gays, Christianity and the West.
  

  ... gays shouldn’t forget that homosexuality flourishes only in urban civilization, and that they would be wise to remember that insofar as the Church is a pillar of civilization, and a tolerable civic order, their own liberties, ironically, depend on the Church being strong.

  Madama:
  

  So gays should quit bitching about Southern Baptists exercising their constitutional right to free speech about homosexuality, which is indeed condemned by the Bible, despite the tortuous casuistry of so many self-interested parties, including clerics.