Commentary The decline of the Washington Post from its former journalistic eminence might be summed up in one headline that I spotted this week while glancing over its daily “Headlines” newsletter—which is usually as much of the paper as I care to see anymore. This headline was to an opinion piece by one Terrance Weeden and contained the customary thumbnail biography of the author within itself. It read: “I’m a gay, Christian pediatrician and have no doubt: Jesus would reject anti-trans laws.” Let’s just say that the kind of people given to confident pronouncements about what political party Jesus would have favored—presumably does favor—used not to be welcome in the pages of the Washington Post—or any other newspaper that cared about being taken seriously. Of course, such people used to be on the political right. Some, perhaps, still are. But their crass bumptiousness apparently doesn’t count against them now that …