"Because you will play to the audience. . . ."

The only time I play to the audience is when I am performing, as in on stage, singing.

". . . regardless of the truth. . . ."

My dedication to the facts and the truth is 100%. Any other course of action (such as yours) is potentially suicidal. I don't need to "launder" anything because I don't have an "ideology," I have a well-thought-out philosophy of life that works well in the real world because it is based on the wisdom of philosophers who have gone before—and is well vetted by me before accepting. There is nothing "disappointing" about it because it works

I believe it was Plato who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."

I don't know what you're talking about when you mention "your musical history of the composers." What does that have to do with the present discussion? Silly opinions? (Non)utopian pipe dreams? Wishful thinking? I leave that sort of thing to you.

Nothing wrong with my parenting skills and family structure.   Reliable science? I've been a science buff since I was a kid, and although I majored in English and Music in college, I've had one helluvalot of science courses and am quite familiar with the applied scientific method. As to "bullshit blustering blather," once again I leave that sort of thing to experts—like you!

Yes, I do have friends. LOTS of friends. And some of them happen to be homosexual, but since the law allowing gay marriage was passed in the recent state election, they have either gotten married or are about to. They have been together in civil unions, however, which was legalized in this state some years ago!

Once again, there you are, making things up as you go along and twisting what others say to suit your own sick purposes.

You regard me as some sort of "bleeding heart liberal" because I think what two people do in the privacy of their own home is none of my business—nor is it the business of perverts who, apparently, can't think of anything else!!

You need some serious counseling, "counselor!"

Don Firth