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From the Department of “Unfortunate Turns of Phrase”

…we have Andrew Sullivan nemesis and sexual traditionalist John Derbyshire, on National Review’s The Corner (quoting his own weeks-old article, “Minoritarianism“):

Stanley Kurtz’s argument in The Corner this morning ends up at the same point as my […] piece a few weeks ago. Kurtz: ‘This strikes me as yet another case where what is best for a small minority is profoundly harmful to society as a whole.’ Derb: ‘Why, to put it bluntly, should the 97 percent of the population who are not homosexual permit themselves to be jerked around by the three percent who are?’

“Jerked” by homosexuals? Careful now, John. People will start to talk…

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