I feel like a 10th grader, sending a letter to Time magazine about how stupid they are, but I just had to:

To: lettters@time.com From: josh Subject: Charles Krauthammer 6/6/05 essay Cc: The United States, Mullah Dobson

Charles Krauthammer writes, “It seems perfectly O.K. for secularists to impose their secular views on America, such as, say, legalized abortion or gay marriage. But when someone takes the contrary view, all of a sudden he is trying to impose his view on you.”
One needs to ask Kruathammer exactly what that “contrary view” is. Because once you ask that question, Krauthammer’s argument falls apart. The contrary view of legalized gay marriage, for example, is outlawing gay marriage. Outlawing gay marriage (which, no matter how oppressed Krauthammer feels by uppity gay marriage advocates, most states have done, by the way) doesn’t just seem to be an imposition on gay people’s rights, it is an imposition on gay people’s rights; i.e. a gay man cannot marry the person he loves and start a family.
By contrast, legalizing gay marriage is not an imposition on anyone. Against gay marriage? Don’t marry someone of the same sex. The fact that one person thinks someone else’s marriage could be an imposition, simply speaks to that person’s arrogance.

Josh Feit