FMA Fizzles - On Sunday the Post had an article (similar to this previous one in the NYTimes) about how the bigot brigade's march against gay marriage seems to have a lot of generals and not a lot of soldiers.

In the piece, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), the chairman of a Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and a champion of the Federal Marriage Amendment, theorizes about what it will take for more everyday people to get fired up about the FMA: "some more bottom-up concern about whether people are losing control of their lives." (Maybe it's because people are realizing that equal rights for gay couples doesn't actually affect their own lives at all.)

The Post article has some good analysis of the coming vote on the amendment in the Senate (15 votes shy of a 2/3rd majority, it claims) and of the issue's effect on congressional elections. You should check it out.

P.S. This gives me a chance to note an old NYTimes article discussing a group of religious leaders who have published an open letter opposing the FMA. The signers, who represent "Americans United for Separation of Church and State," include two Sikh orgaizations. Wonder what their religion's view of homosexuality is?