The Wrong Side of History

The state legislature in North Dakota just voted down a bill that would have protected LGBT folks from discrimination. A newspaper in that state took up its front page to post photos of all those who'd voted.

Here's that front page. See if you can guess which one of them will soon get arrested in a lavatory soliciting others of the same gender or will otherwise be exposed as a closeted gay person. I see one or two very likely ones in there. Extra points if you can predict how many will find out that they have a gay son or daughter.

And all of these upstanding Americans will eventually be in the same position as the many lawmakers who voted for racial segregation time and again, only to later have to deny they'd done that or work up convoluted explanations of how, well, those weren't really votes for segregation…