"Brian Williams Grudgingly Reports Stories that are Thoroughly Beneath Him" is something that would actually get me to tune into network television every night.
Poor man's just gone crazy. That editorial is from someone living in a fearful religious delusion. It's tragic considering some of his works were great at building a secular spirituality, and treating religion as an important product of human nature, not a literal truth from on-high. His views have devolved to be unrecognizable.
He wrote a retelling of Hamlet recently in which gays are pedophiles, and they turn kids gay by raping them. Which causes suicide and depression for life. I strongly suspect from this that either he or someone he knows was abused, and it's fueling his unbridled bigotry against all homosexuals. Along with Fox News and the Mormon Church of course.
Honestly, I think I'd rather be dead that reach that stage where my personality, my soul, is consumed by such angry and frightened delusions. Alzheimers looks cheerful by comparison.