This is by the same author 50 years ago in Harpers
"Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity" by Joseph Epstein from Harper’s Magazine, September 1970
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There is much my four sons can do in their lives that might cause me anguish, that might outrage me, that might make me ashamed of them and of myself as their father. But nothing they could ever do would make me sadder than if any of them were to become homosexual. For then I should know them condemned to a state of permanent niggerdom among men, their lives, whatever adjustment they might make to their condition, to be lived out as part of the pain of the earth.
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Read the whole thing for context if interested. It’s an interesting record of homophobia. Also, he writes in circles to give himself argumentative escapes. He was a better writer back then, if equally hateful. You can tell he’s going for that old school William F. Buckley kind of conservative condescension in that WSJ editorial but as usual today’s conservative “intellectuals” are just simple bitch ass trolls.