The Sizzler Factor - Are same-sex couples closer to their married straight counterparts or to footloose singletons a la Carrie Bradshaw and friends? This Business Week article about "Unmaried America" lumps Jamie and me in with the SATC girls. In general, that also seems to be the point of David Frum's anti-gay marriage piece in today's WSJ. Responding to Andrew Sullivan's challenge to conservatives on this issue last week, Frum basically argues that gay marriage will inevitably lead to a proliferation of quasi-marriage legal arrangements (some more like marriage, some less) which will be available to, and hopelessly confuse, straight people. Most importantly, the "50 different buffets" of legal choices will fool especially women into accepting a marriage-like arrangement that doesn't adequately provide for the proper up-bringing of the kids. And this is all the fault of us gays, but mostly it seems for accepting a status less than that of true marriage.