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In light of the disproportion, one can’t help but draw the conclusion that pundits and voters still understand playing gay as one mark in the column for “outstanding performance.”

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Withholding funding for the “alleged actions of a few individuals,” he said, was a “matter of extraordinary disproportion.”

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In recent years, however, the disproportions have grown even more extreme.

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The Congressional Budget Office and National Academy of Sciences, to name two sources that painstakingly documented the disproportion.

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This top-heavy treatment of the “Messiah” isn’t uncommon — that centerpiece “Hallelujah” can justify just about any level of choral disproportion.

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