The ever-astute Hendrik Hertzberg:
For five days last week, the White House and its Capitol Hill allies did urgent battle against what they perceive, or say they perceive, as an attack on the institution of marriage. It’s a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to cause harm, consisting, as it does, of the earnest wish of certain loving couples to join themselves to that very institution and thus to feel themselves, and be accepted as, full members of the American (and human) family.
[Cross-posted at If I Ran the Zoo]
It’s about time that those of us who are straight realised that all love is beautiful and that no one has the right to dictate whom we may fall in love with.Furthermore if we allow religious fanatics to stick their noses in the private lives of gays,who’s to stop them from doing the same to us.
Amen to that.