But if Gethsemane has actually lost business, he can see a bright side to that. When gays and lesbians show their market clout this way, it's really a positive thing. For some reason the Tribune treated the confessions of Bob Kerrey last week as a second-rate story. The Sun-Times understood what it had. And I would vote for Bob Kerrey.
Some stories are important.
This one was profound, taking us to the unfamiliar bedrock of sin, memory, and remorse. Some commentators saw nothing more than an occasion to refight old battles. It's almost as if those who were killed have become mere stage props in some morality play. But the revelations about the 1969 SEAL raid on the village of Thanh Phong may have made him seem less monstrous than sympathetic. He is the rare public figure who has looked into his own soul.