God, Guns and Gays - September's Columbia Journalism Review reports about a Christian journalism school with a mission to increase tolerance for evangelicals in prominent newsrooms like the NYTimes and Washington Post. In an effort to get reporters to see folks of that persuasion as "living, breathing people and not backward bible-thumpers," the school's director cites a surprising role model — gays. "The homosexuals are our role model in this," he says. "They had the same problems we do twenty, twenty-five years ago — a despised minority hiding in the closet, and all the stories in the media looked to point out their weaknesses. They overcame this by integrating into the mainstream." Before you get all warm and fuzzy about everyone just getting along, however, you should also know that the school is also devoted to bringing "an evangelical or biblical perspective to the newsroom." So much for diversity.

Meanwhile, back on Capitol Hill, the GOP leadership is busy letting the ban on assault weapons lapse while it pushes to let the House of Representatives vote on a federal constitutional prohibition on gay marriage. Because guns don't harm society, homosexual matrimony does.