Columnist Dale O'Leary on gay activists and "The Racism Ploy"

The current flap over Senator Rick Santorum's remarks brings attention to the efforts of "gay" activists to have same-sex orientation treated as a characteristic like ethnicity: based on genetics, inherited and unchangeable, and in fact a plus for social diversity. The claim doesn't happen to be true: a newly updated statement on "Homosexuality and Hope" from the Catholic Medical Association confirms that same-sex attraction is a matter of human development and is treatable and even preventable.

Boston area readers may be interested in hearing Courageous David Morrison and, um, dissenting Andrew Sullivan in a panel discussion Monday, April 28 at Boston College.