Neanderthals at the Gate

It has always amazed me that smart, even progressive, business people still subscribe to and read the Wall Street Jurnal, even after its editorial pages have been hijacked by total nutjobs. As if further proof is needed, here's a pearl from today's pages:

But in today's politically correct culture, it's easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds to doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emails. Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert's head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys. Are these Democratic critics of Mr. Hastert saying that they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts' decision to ban gay scoutmasters? Where's Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on that one?

I hesitate to point this out to my more eductated, if not slightly smaller, audience: What Mark Foley did was not wrong because it was directed at members of the same sex, it was wrong because they were minors. Note to the Journal: while the Dow Jones, despite your faithful cheerleading of Bush economic policies, has yet to advance beyond 20th century levels, as a society, the rest of us have.