I would like to see the return of social norms where gays feel shame and humility again because they face sanctions against "expressing themselves," and where they especially have a lot of trouble finding each other to engage in their self-destructive behavior. I suppose gay men's lives have "value" based on some kind of abstract moral reasoning. But that "value" doesn't mean they have a right to sexual fulfillment, for the simple reason that nobody has such a right. Instead we have let gay men set the standard for this entitlement mentality that threatens to bring down civilization.

Oh, speaking of a return to tradition, I work in the hospitality industry, and last night I checked in a young, Mennonite-looking couple from Missouri. The young woman wore a plain, old-fashioned prairie dress and bonnet, like she stepped off the cover of one of those "bonnet ripper" novels many women like to read these days.

I thought: Hey, I could see living in a world where that standard of women's decorum becomes the norm again. I don't like the world of obese, vulgar, loud, promiscuous women with tattoos, piercings and opinions based on arbitrary liberal ideology instead of empiricism.