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In The Fullness Of Time, I Suspect That Bigotry Against Homosexuals Will Seem As Repugnant As Racial Prejudice Does Today. Or So One Hopes.

Religious Belief, Like History Itself, Is A Story That Is Always Unfolding, Always Subject To Inquiry And Ripe For Questioning. For Without Doubt There Is No Faith.

The Occupy Wall Street Protests At Last Suggest That America's Wealth Gap Is Once Again Becoming An Organizing Political Principle In The Country.

As A Southerner Born After The Epic Events Of The Civil Rights Movement, I've Always Wondered How On Earth People Of Good Will Could Have Conceivably Lived With Jim Crow - With The Daily Degradations, The Lynchings In Plain Sight, And, As The Movement Gathered Force, With The Fire Hoses And The Police Dogs And The Billy Clubs.

It Would Be Great If Politics Were Fact-based, But It Is Not, And It Is Surely Not Nuance-based. What Works In A Classroom Or A Think Tank Does Not Work On Capitol Hill Or In The White House. Obama Sometimes Seems To Be Running The Brookings Institution, Not The Country.