There's been lots of commentary on the value of a college degree and the whole liberal arts curricula.

Is a university degree---especially liberal arts---worth the exorbitant price tag?

I say yes, and no.

Even though they won't be in demand in the job market, the student does walk away with invaluable social and cultural experiences.....provided they're lucky enough to have one or two true scholars as professors.

It's an odd time. University professors are finding they are most certainly expendable.

Even the idea of tenure is coming under attack. A guaranteed job for life in the 21st century does seem a bit quaint.

Tenured radicals unite!

Reading this is so depressing!

Things haven't changed at all, but seem to be getting worse.

David, the issue in my view is not who someone chooses to love.

Who would care?

The overriding issue is forcing everyone else to assign an appellation to gay couplings that is wholly inaccurate.

This forced "dignity" seems unnecessary and if the quest is just "to love someone else and spend the rest of your life with them", why are civil unions not sufficient?

In fact, civil unions would suffice for both hetero and gay couplings and those who wanted the ritual of marriage could have a wedding at a religious institution.

This would make the current brouhaha over SSM more superfluous and unnecessary than it already is.

This is decidedly NOT an "equality" issue. And not a gender issue. Gays have all the rights as the rest of us.

This isn't anything close to being analogous to one's race/ethnicity. When someone uses that gross analogy they should be slapped.

Make no mistake, same-sex marriage will become law just as DADT has been repealed.....come what may.

I think most people are like me and remain dispassionate for the most part.

The push of the gay agenda is for financial gain and a forced dignity. Most people couldn't care one way or the other until they are met with the obnoxious gay agenda.

Gays are a tiny percentage of the population, yet many wish to force a rather unpalatable "lifestyle" as "vanilla" and on par with heterosexual sex.

But fortunately, some gays are trying to push frottage and steer young gay men away from the more destructive elements.

It's always a no-no to state the fact that lots of gay men have a strong attraction to adolescents. Nothing is more vehemently denied by gays, but nothing is more apparent to anyone who has experienced life for any length of time,

Political correctness requires that we don't state the obvious, but, instead, highlight the few adult gays who forms lasting relationships with each other.

From testimony and recollections through the ages, homosexual seduction is often the root into homosexuality. So it really isn’t surprising that advocates of SSM are also usually advocating for lowering “the age of consent.”

Visit any "man" website like Towleroad or the ostensibly more serious ones. There will always be ads and links to gay porn.....just as a matter of course.

The sexual aspect is always incorporated into the professional. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, unless you're trying to push your agenda as one that is "just like everyone else".

We gloss over it, but the gay "lifestyle", as a whole, runs on very different batteries and we will hear the screams and whines of "intolerance" when the obvious is illuminated.

Lastly, I couldn't care less what other people do, but I do care what they choose to call it and who must be forced to abide the contorted agenda.

"Asking if homosexuality is good or bad is a bit like asking if rain is good or bad."
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I disagree.

The human race and this earth need rain.

Who someone chooses to couple with and how they choose to label their coupling---even as those choices seem to be moving targets---are not necessary elements of life. Not even close.

Just manifestations of someone's current desire.

I remain surprised by my own concern regarding this issue since I've always been dispassionate on the subject and even though "marriage" is not the be-all and end-all for many of us, there should be something within our existence that remains unmolested and faithful to natural human flow.

Gay coupling, by definition, cannot realistically be a "marriage".

And small children should not be taught this fantasy.

Teens and millenials should not be forced to accept this agenda or else have their academic futures upended by gay professors and "activists" who have most certainly created a cultural dictatorship on our university campuses.

Of course, who someone chooses to love is a right that we all possess; however, we should not have the right to force the rest of society to go along on a Star Trek voyage into a Vulcan rendition of "marriage".

"Gay marriage" does no harm to heterosexual marriage---the mantra of gays and SSM "activists".

I agree.

But it does immeasurable harm to the institution of marriage.

We have no right to demand that all of society exalt our private choices.

But that is precisely the gay agenda. Protestations to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Interesting that most of the issues David has illuminated in this past article are still with us.

The gay agenda is mostly an incongruent maze of overwrought emotional contrivances.

Since society has decided to play along, that's the way it is.

In my view, homosexuality is a curious and fragile mixture of nature and nurture.

On most issues I'm basically at the center and have always been "progressive" with regard to the majority of social issues; however, the self-massaging and navel-gazing of the gay community have added absolutely nothing positive to society in general.

Just another "victim" group with a constant hard-on to be disgruntled.

And there is no question that the sexual menu of gay men has cost this country billions and billions in health-care costs.

Just ask gadfly journalist and bare-back aficionado extraordinaire from across the pond, Andrew Sullivan, what is incurred by his employer in health-care costs because of his HIV+ status.

We all pay for the "lifestyle".

Any wonder that Obama is still "evolving" on the SSM issue?

A side bar--I like the new format!