：Gay Right

フランク・リッチがコラムのなかで挙げている、ゲイを激しく非難し続ける司法関係者の記述が興味深い。

Their patron saint is the former Alabama chief justice Roy S. Moore, best known for his activism in displaying the Ten Commandments; in a ruling against a lesbian mother in a custody case, Mr. Moore deemed homosexuality "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature" and suggested that the state had the power to prohibit homosexual "conduct" with penalties including "confinement and even execution." Another hero is William H. Pryor Jr., the former Alabama attorney general whose nomination to the federal bench was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. A Pryor brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Texas anti-sodomy law argued that decriminalized gay sex would lead to legalized necrophilia, bestiality and child pornography.
（May 15, 2005　Just How Gay Is the Right?　By FRANK RICH）

ネクロフィリアや獣姦、チャイルドポルノを合法化しないための、その賭場口における戦いであるのだと、彼らは自らのゲイへの忌避感を正当化しているのである。数十年前まで、白人と黒人のあいだの結婚も、州法で禁じられていたアメリカにおいて、現在は同姓間の結婚が社会の転換期を象徴する論争の焦点になっていると言えるのではないか。