Desperate Republicans - the Gay Marriage Saga

It's a lie. If Adam and Steve down the road marry, it will not harm your heterosexual relationship. I promise you, your marriage will be exactly as disfunctional (or if you're like about half of all heterosexual couples, functional) as it was before Amy and Eve tied the knot. You won't catch queerness from them - you can't catch it. They won't pervert your kids unless perhaps you're of the Right school of thought that tolerance is a perversion. In short, two gays marrying will have about as much effect on your life as two fireflies mating. You'll never notice it.

On the other hand, building intolerance into our Constitution is an ill that affects us all. By pandering to the Conservative base, that's exactly what Frist, Hastert and Bush want with their proposed "Protection of Marriage Amendment." They're protecting nothing - the Angry Republican couple I met today are not fooled by this misdirection. All they'll do is gather a few more campaign contributions from their base (rich, paranoid conservatives, mostly of the Christian Taliban) and waste the Senate's time, time it could be spending on more salient issues than the relationship of about three percent of our population.