Conservative editorialists have doggedly denounced and ridiculed Singer's argument. None of them, however, has explained what's wrong with it. Or take the Wall Street Journal editorial page. The same logic applies to mockery of Singer's vegetarianism. But you could just as easily ask those of us who eat meat why, if it's wrong to rape animals, it's OK to kill them.
Liberals have a different problem.
Most of them want to say that sex with your dog is wrong, but sex with a human of your own gender isn't. It will be a disservice to zoo couples and would keep zoo couples from coming out of the closet and drive us deeper underground. Then there's the case of the killer dogs in San Francisco. Last week, Marjorie Knoller and her husband, Robert Noel, were collared on manslaughter charges because two dogs in their care mauled to death their neighbor, Diane Whipple. The last thing liberals want is to see homosexuality equated with this kind of animal husbandry.