Pride Goeth Before the Fall

I have previously noted that while Minnesota has horrible winters (though better of late, thanks to global warming) and too many mosquitos (though worse of late, for the same reason), the most odious and annoying thing about this state is the continued, inexplicable employment at the Star Tribune of Katherine Kersten. Kersten can always be counted upon to go after Muslims or women, or Muslim women, if she can work it out. She also can be counted upon to defend people who hang nooses in college newspaper offices. And she can be counted upon to attack The Handmaid’s Tale by saying, “For many female college students, the challenge is going to be, not resisting male tyranny, but finding an equally well-educated man to marry,” thus destroying irony for this and all future generations. In today’s column, Kersten is in fine form, as she gets to not only defend the Catholic Church — one of her favorite institutions going — but attack homosexu...