(This ran as my newspaper column on March 16, 2010. A few of the details on the McMillen prom case are a tad out of date, but the bulk of the piece still holds.) The Lego castle was almost done. It was a complicated thing, one of the most intricate constructions my then-preschooler had ever built. One piece wasn’t snapping in well, however, and it became too much for his hands to manage. With a sweep of his arm, he smashed the castle to bits. Two organizations have shown similar behavior lately with respect to gay people. A Mississippi high school canceled its entire prom rather than let student Constance McMillen attend with her girlfriend and wear a tux. The school board issued a statement saying the event was causing “distractions to the educational process.” Now the story is all over the Internet, Ellen Degeneres has tweeted about it, and