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Rita Nakashima Brock, assistant professor of Religion at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. will head the Mary Ingraham Bunting institute Beginning this Fall...
...Laura Ingraham, the CBS and MSNBC analyst, is as hard as a diamond. Her killer views against gays, feminists, gun-control advocates and welfare stand out even in that booming segment of the instant-pundit industry: right-wing women commentators. That's why her recent essay in the Washington Post apologizing for her rabid intolerance of gays dropped like a bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity...
...that, except that when you shoot to the top of the pundit food chain just a year after shedding your lawyer's pinstripes without any tedious apprenticeships, no good deed goes unchallenged. Jeffrey Hart, the Review's faculty adviser, sent a memo to the Weekly Standard saying that Ingraham had some nerve dragging the Review into her "phony political confession" given that no one else there held, as she did, "the most extreme antihomosexual views imaginable." He says she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual and might touch her silverware...
...Hart misses the real problem with Ingraham's public conversion. It's not that it glosses over her prior actions, or wrongly implicates others or smacks of self-congratulation. It's that it is a haphazard, self-limiting approach to public policy--and there's a lot of that going around these days. Hard-nosed budget hawk Senator Pete Domenici, whose daughter has suffered from mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine...
...Ingraham said that until her brother's ordeal she didn't understand the urgency for AIDS funding, the problems gay couples face with insurance and the emotional strain of continuing discrimination. But doesn't a commentator have a responsibility to find out about such things before venturing an opinion, even if it means looking outside your own tribe...