What Backlash? - The body politic in Massachusetts fails to be roiled by gay marriage, according to two post-Goodridge polls. (See Herald; Globe.) Another example of the right-wingers generating more smoke than heat?

Also, here are a couple of items which foreshadowed the SJC decision in the weeks before it was released. First, ABC's unfunny sitcom It's All Relative, which has not been benched only because the struggling network hasn't got any backup, covered the zany antics of a pro-gay marriage local candidate in the episode that aired November 12th. And New York Magazine put married-with-children gays on its November 3rd front cover, which led to a slew of cranky letters decrying the affluent good life depicted in the original article:

As Michelangelo Signorile correctly points out, having kids is often a "luxury, not a mandate" for many gays and lesbians. David Usborne’s story would have benefited from some economic diversity, perhaps by profiling a gay dad who has to work two jobs to support his child, or a lesbian mom who manages to care for her baby without the help of a nanny or au pair. The only thing that "Gay With Children" illustrates is that rich gays and lesbians now feel comfortable enough to be every bit as obnoxious and self-involved as the straight couples who shuttle their kids from private Manhattan schools to their Hamptons beach houses. This is progress?

Snipe, snipe, snipe.