Thursday, February 19

Love Won Out II - From the NYTimes editorial page today:

Opponents of gay marriage have been loudly calling for a constitutional amendment prohibiting any state from recognizing gay marriages. Despite the parade of horribles they haul out, their greatest fear appears to be that giving gay men and women the right to join legally and permanently with the ones they love will work out just fine, and that the American people will see that the fears being foisted on them are unfounded.

This, in defense of a federal approach to letting the states experiment with same-sex marriage. The prospect of a collective revelation about gay marriage is what activists proponents of the radical agenda make possible. (Unlike the navel gazing political theorists have been doing, which the public really doesn't notice at all.) Call it "the sky didn't fall" strategy. Maybe it's working, but we'll need editors from less decidedly liberal papers across the nation to embrace the idea before we can say it is.