Still shouting from my soapbox.

Nicholas Kristof has written a beautiful op/ed, which appears in today's New York Times. I always enjoy reading Kristof's lucid, thoughful prose, but this piece is especially on target.

Kristof examines the evidence supporting a genetic basis for homosexuality, and considers why a "gay gene" would be passed down through the generations if gays are less likely than straights to reproduce biologically. The discussion is fascinating. But the most dead-on statement in Kristof's editiorial is the final paragraph, which I wish I'd composed myself:

"No force is more divine than love, and if some people are encoded to love others of the same sex, how can that be unholy? To me, the blasphemy is not in those who want to share their lives with others of the same sex, but rather in anyone presumptuous enough to vilify that love."