With only words to share.
You know that I was born for a night like this.
Born for a stolen kiss.
--Neil Diamond
The ACLU cannot argue that Stutzman was not engaging in a form of political expression when she refused to service these men, and I can also envision her attorneys arguing (as attorneys might for me one day) that those of us hostile to equality on the basis of sexual orientation are minorities whose views one day might need protection from the tyranny of the censor. This is how liberals damn themselves all the time.
I have read revisionists making their bylines decoding Rock Hudson's gay memes against Doris Day in Pillow Talk. The same level of equivocating can be found scripted in Blindfold. I have no doubt this linguistic vibrancy was mourned by Orwell well advanced from contemporary dangers opaque and present. Hitchens said his class took Orwell more seriously than what they were supposed to be studying. It is difficult, however, not to see Animal Farm as a block of molten lava with a whiff of sulfur making a deadly stench.
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