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...long years they toured the circuit. That skill made Hope the perfect comedian for the new media of radio and TV, which chewed up material (and personalities) at a manic rate. We were properly awed by his motormouth profligacy. We knew he had a million jokes on an equal number of topics: Eleanor Roosevelt, Crosby's golf game, Los Angeles pedestrians, income taxes...
...impersonal. He was an equal-opportunity insulter, especially of himself, about whose passions and politics he revealed nothing (until--his one gaffe--he took sides in the Vietnam conflict). It was all very Waspy and Middle American, but it perfectly suited a great age of denial. Then, of course, comedy changed. Sometime in the '60s, it became more personal--more ethnic, more neurotic, even more socially critical--at which point Hope began to seem old-fashioned, someone whose endless string of top-rated NBC specials "skewed old" demographically. The younger, hipper crowd wanted more bite...
...mainstream an endorsement as you can get. Canada just legalized gay marriage, and the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down sodomy laws across the land, legitimizing the fact that homosexual is something you are, not something you do. Polls in Massachusetts and New Jersey show majorities in favor of equal marriage rights...
Many say they are not hostile toward gay people; they just don't think gays should be regarded as equal to heterosexuals under the law or that gay love is as valid as straight. How am I or any homosexual supposed to respond to that? How much more personal an issue...
...created male and female in his image. Come to the New Testament, Jesus seemed to have a ministry that favored women in a culture that did not. On Pentecost morning, the room that had this outpouring happen was filled with women as well as men. God is an equal opportunity employer. But the moral stipulation of how one lives ones life will always be important. The moral code as far as human sexual expression that is blessed is that between a man and a woman. In Genesis God created male and female. He didn't create...