I'm so mad about this I can't even come up with words to describe it. If they want to protect marriage, mandate premarital counseling. See how that one goes over with the smaller-government set.

None of my gay friends has ever tried to convert me. None of them is out to destroy the institution of marriage. Some of them have, however, been deeply adversely affected by the fact that same-sex partners do not have the same civil rights as opposite-sex spouses.