NOW HE'S GONE TOO FAR

Next Up, the Gay Divorcee (MAUREEN DOWD, 7/02/03, NY Times)

There's a serial cat killer on the loose in the West. Has anyone checked Bill Frist's alibi?

In his 1989 memoir, Dr. Frist, the heart surgeon and Senate majority leader, confessed that at Harvard Medical School, he used to adopt stray cats at shelters, take them home and slice and dice them for practice.

"It was, of course, a heinous and dishonest thing to do," he wrote. "And I was totally schizoid about the entire matter. By day, I was little Billy Frist, the boy who lived on Bowling Avenue in Nashville and had decided to become a doctor because of his gentle father and a dog named Scratchy. By night, I was Dr. William Harrison Frist, future cardiothoracic surgeon, who was not going to let a few sentiments about cute, furry little creatures stand in the way of his career. In short, I was going a little crazy."

Now Dr. Frist is not going to let any sentiments about those cute lesbians on the new cover of Newsweek--headlined "Is Gay Marriage Next?"--stand in the way of his career.

Ms Dowd is right: it would obviously be inhumane to kill homosexuals and use them for med school cadavers. On the other hand, the state should no more sanction same-sex marriage than a human marriage to a cat. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 2, 2003 11:14 AM