Does this mean Pat Buchanan can come back? - A report in the Wash Times says that the GOP may be looking to enshrine opposition to gay marriage in their 2004 platform (no big surprise). But will it endorse the Federal Marriage Amendment? The replacement for gay-friendly RNC Chairman Marc Racicot, a staunch Catholic by the name of Ed Gillespie, seems to think so. Once upon a time the Catholics were noted for some liberal viewpoints. The kind of anti-gay polemics being issued from the Vatican these days, however, seems to be taking root -- and giving plenty of cover to the likes of Gillespie, Santorum and Scalia. I'm telling you Republican moderates out there: beware these guys and the religious dogma they bring to the political debate. They're much smarter (and therefore more dangerous) than any looney judge down Alabama-way.