and a letter was published signed by a couple score of prominent people, among them andrew sullivan, probably the most famous activist on behalf of same-sex marriage out there. jonathan rausch, ditto. and other people, libertarians and others concerned about the dive that civility had obviously just taken and about the idea that there would be an irrationalist hunt on traditionalists. the letter was published, i think it was called freedom to marry, freedom to dissent and why we need both. and that was pretty much it. it didn't ripple outward. but the fact that it existed tells you that there are people out there who do sense that it's gone too far, that the secularist witch hunt, if you will, has gone too far. there are other examples. the reason i think there will be a lot more of this is that given ever-evolving tenets about what the sexual revolution thousand demands, people who were in good standing yesterday now find themselves heretics in their own ranks. those people are going to need someplace to go, and that's another run for reaching out to them -- another reason for reach