He felt like Hercules at the Augean stables commissioned to clean out the accumulated filth of centuries. - Michael Nava

What is happening in contemporary American society is that people who prefer to be with members of their own sex no longer see this as a reason to be deprived of the rights to citizenship, family formation, and privacy.

Many Americans share the feeling that our society has forgotten how to mind its own business.

"You're a fine one to talk about motherhood," Eulalia replied. "You expelled your children from your womb directly into Swiss boarding schools."