Speaking of apologizing, I must say I'm sorry to Walter Cronkite for calling him a complete idiot. I was wrong, He's only a partial idiot. I tend to agree with most of what he says today:

There are many of us Christians who recall our Sunday-school teachers and later our ministers dwelling upon the sympathy and respect - indeed, the tolerance - for others that, they taught, was basic to our Christian religion. As the prophet Isaiah summed up this need for tolerance: "Come, let us reason together."

We who believe this are compelled to ask: Where is the tolerance, where is the Christian spirit in the effort to criminalize the personal choices of our fellow citizens, personal choices that do not physically threaten others? Where is the Christian tolerance in the conceit of those Christian leaders who dare suggest that they alone can be trusted to properly interpret the lessons of their Bible, and who would impose that belief on this nation's highly diverse peoples by threatening to throw them in jail if they don't agree with the Christian right's version of God's wishes?

I don't agree with the "throw them in jail" part, but the idea is right. Homosexuality is not a choice. Who would choose to be gay? Who would elect to deal with the scorn? You are born either gay or straight, just as you are born black, white, or hispanic.