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You completely avoid the whole gender-biasing issue. Not all little girls want to be the belle of the ball. Some want to play ball. Some boys might want to be the belle of the ball, and not to play ball. Some of those little girls, if they don't feel the stirrings already, will grow up to want to be with women, not men. And men with men.

I realize this seems like the apocalypse to far too many, but out there beyond Cranston, people have kind of moved way beyond these nutty reactions to civilizing change. (I should add that I'm happy to read that, unlike the case of the banner issue, outrage against following both law and basic decency is nowhere near as widespread.)

For those of you still mired in narcissistic reaction, sorry, you can't just use the power of the state to ram your view of gender roles down everyone's throat. Organize a big private daddy-daughter dance and have a ball. You can hold it under the banner if you like.

Speaking of which, I hear that Symbol of All That Is Holy is rotting away in a basement despite Bobby Bach's group's desire to have it restored, preserved, and hung in some private building. An endeavor to which my wife and I contributed $500. To apparently no avail.

Finally, even within the artificial confines of this op-ed's point of view, it is shockingly cold to argue, as this op-ed does, that that little girl whose daddy died or abandoned her should just suck it up. Tough love? Sounds like sadism to me. Throw that little girl under the bus so that we can preserve or State-sanctioned gender role-assigning.

Incredible.