Mickey's Issues

A reader writes:

I read your blog regularly and the website of Mickey Kaus and Bob Wright, bloggingheads.tv. It never made sense to me why Mickey Kaus, who seems from all accounts a very decent and open-minded man, should be so fixated on issues of gay marriage, and in particular, your treatment of gay marriage. I do not think his discomfort with homosexuals and homosexual marriage is based on any religious objection. I do think it is based on his objection to what you are doing, indeed what you have been critical in doing over the last twenty years, which is normalizing (is that a verb?) homosexuality.

Mickey Kaus is frustrated because he can't put you in the box that has been historically assigned to gay men: that is, bent on destroying the morals of our nation. Obviously, gay marriage, widely practiced, threatens to undermine this notion. Thus, Mr. Kaus is left practically speechless, or at best, has to remain content insinuating about "moral entropy". Like religious or spiritual objections, such an assertion is untestable and impossible to rebut. If he were truly brave, he would state what I think is truly in his mind, that gay men make him uncomfortable and that gay marriage would permanently normalize homosexuality, a political and social project which troubles him greatly.  Because he travels in very elite liberal and conservative circles, he is not able to raise this kind of objection without risking the scorn of his friends and colleagues. Thus, you really tie him up in knots. It's quite amusing, really, to watch him get bent out of shape at the mention of your name.

Or maybe Mickey has a better expanation.