Sunday Morning Open Thread

Joe is off for the week, so Chris and I will be covering for him, and then Chris and I will be off the following, while Joe picks up the slack for us. I'm in the balmy land of Chicago, where tomorrow's high is forecasted to be around 5. Lovely weather for Christmas shopping, but at least we have snow on the ground - a white Christmas is a very important thing. In good news, Al Franken still appears to be ahead in Minnesota. In bad news, no, the Rick Warren controversy has not run its course. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I hear the non-gay majority in this country give their view on "diversity," the more incensed I get. There aren't two views on civil rights, unless you mean the right view and the wrong view, the moral view and the immoral view. Obama knows the difference. Obama has lectured his own community on the difference. But now that he's seeking to curry political favor with the bigoted evangelicals, suddenly civil rights is just another policy debate with multiple legitimate points of views. Suddenly, when the color changes to gay, civil rights become relative and humanity negotiable. They aren't.