[lentulusgracchus]

We are all blinded by our own pride and ambitions, and work hard to justify those things that benefit us, whatever their cost to others.

A stout conservative I admire, a family man with an aircraft-engineering job in the Seattle area, embattled online with the antinomian catamites teeming on Salon's "Table Talk" single-sex marriage threads 10 years ago, once asked, along the same lines, "Who do you have to be, to say 'should'?"

[IronJack]

Well stated.