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Billy Jean King Could Not Get Credit When Her Husband Was In Law School And She Was Winning The Wimbledon, Because He Had To Sign The Cards. You Know, You Had These Cases In The '70s Of Women Who Were Mayors Who Couldn't Get Credit Unless Their Husbands Signed For Them.

I Grew Up In One Of The Most Socially Conservative Neighborhoods In Ohio, And My Parents Were Traditional Catholics. But In Her Old Age, My Mother Got Her Home Health Care From A Guy Who Was Gay, Who Was Wonderful To Her. Before She Died, She Rode A Float In The Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

Now My Poor Hometown Is Being Castigated As The Center Of An Irs Scandal. Humble Workers At The Cincinnati Office Targeted Tea Party Groups And Other Conservative Organizations For Special Scrutiny When Those Groups Applied For Tax-exempt Status. There's No Conceivable Excuse For That. It Was Deeply, Deeply Wrong.

The Irs Targeting Certain Groups For Harassment Because Of Their Politics Would Be Unfair. If We Found Out The Nsa Was Keeping Special Tabs On Everyone Who Worshiped At A Mosque Or Took A Bible Trip Through The Middle East, You'd Have An Uprising.

Downplaying Their Faults Is Pretty Much The Point Of Campaigns. But We Do Count On Them Living With The Constant Terror Of Public Rejection.