Now that I've read the article.....it sounds like HHH was discussing childlessness and attitudes toward the future, which is a perfectly reasonable discussion. After my brother got married and they had their first child, he stopped mountain climbing and spelunking and other dangerous sports, which he later thought about and concluded that it was because he knew that he had a wife-and-mother and a child who depended on him still being around to provide for them. It's not sexuality that matters, but a generally related condition, which is childlessness. I've noticed that homosexuals with children change their behavior as much as do heterosexuals with children.
So Hoppe certainly didn't deserve that kind of treatment. On the other hand, it's not evidence that he isn't a vicious bigot and all-round jerk. He is. His remarks (on three continents) that "Tom Palmer is nothing but the Ambassador of Homosexuality," offered as a reason to dismiss any value lectures I might have held on political science and the history of constitutionalism, is evidence of that.
by Tom G Palmer on February 6, 2005 at 10:54 AM