Among Friends, Extra-Special Moral Equivalency Edition

The Editor-In-Chief of the Washington Times, Wesley Pruden, welcomes his newest columnist:

A big day for kink, shorn of stigma

...[T]he Blair government, to Tory applause, is about to adopt "gay marriage," without the shoes and rice.
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The Supreme Court's new sodomy case revisits settled law that the state has a legitimate interest in prohibiting unnatural sexual relations. The government's lawyers could argue, but probably won't, that sodomy is a public-health issue, as sodomy in the age of AIDS is a worldwide health hazard, like smoking (but, unlike smoking, highly contagious). Two decades on, nearly all the heterosexual AIDS cases are either dirty-needle druggies, children who inherited the virus, or women dumb enough or unfortunate enough to live with druggies. The government might lose this time; the Supreme Court could reason that government snoops have no place in anybody's bedroom, homo- or hetero-.

To soften the blow against actual marriage, the Blair government announced that it would act boldly to prohibit bestiality, or what its practitioners call "zoosexuality." ... This puzzles some British pundits, who do not understand why the government wants to make some unnatural sex a crime, and not others...

Once upon a time, in a land and in a century far away, we did not have to concern ourselves with these sordid topics, once unfit for discussion in genteel mixed company. Ah, the golden days of pre-Clintonian innocence.

Well, he may be your Editor-in-Chief, Andrew, but thank goodness he's no Howell Raines.