NOLA = Northern Louisiana. Bordered on the north by Arkansas, on the west by Texas, on the east by Mississippi. A stronghold of the KKK.

Freudianism is not dead, because castration anxiety is alive and well and motivating behavior. As a people, Americans are not doing all so well psychologically that we can afford to dismiss the notion of passing laws guaranteeing equal protection to sexual minorities.

Gay people are legally second class citizens. That is what was held in the 1986 Supreme Court decision Bowers v. Hardwick, and remains the law of the land. Gays have not come so far that the Bowers decision is irrelevant. That is just not true.

I do not expect that the necessary changes in the law will come from the right wing. In fact, given the indifference of moderates, any changes coming from the right wing will probably take the form of renewed persecution.