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If gays are unhappy, said Bill Bennett in a debate with Birch on ABC's This Week , the "compassionate" response is to help them abandon homosexuality.
Then there is Come Back to Sorrento (1932), a simple, direct, and achingly beautiful study of two would-be artists in a stultifying small town that cannot comprehend their dreams and ambitions ( Come Back to Sorrento , by the way, is one of the very few books written before the gay-lib movement that features homosexual characters and is neither a soggy plea for understanding, a mockery or hate tract, a clinical case study, or anything other than an intricate and compassionate rendering of some fellow human beings).
And credit for that compassionate, optimistic idea goes to cruel, brain-dead sourpuss Bob Dole.
Four months ago, when George W. Bush launched his presidential exploratory committee, he defended tax cuts by arguing that it was "compassionate" of political leaders "to give people more money."
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, Steve Forbes ridiculed "compassionate conservative" rhetoric, "mushy moderates," "mealy-mouthed rhetoric and poll-tested clichés."