ANd let me add, Ake, that I have no particular axe to grind for homosexuality, although I have none to grind against it, either. I have no dog in that fight personally. What I DO have an axe to grin for is this simple statement: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

Trying to carve out one of life basic passages, marriage, and restrict it from a certain population legally is, in my mind, the most wrong-headed reversal of that proposition possible. There have been worse, so maybe that's a bit strong, but it is nevertheless unacceptably totalitarian.


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