The New York Times' William Safire weighs in On Same Sex Marriage. It's sort of a "coming to terms" piece, but he's getting there.
Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post,
William Raspberry is prepared to embrace same-sex marriage,
then reads "queer" leftwing polemicist Michael Warner's screed
against Andrew Sullivan, marriage, and the danger of gay life
becoming "normal":
"As long as people marry," [Warner] says, "the state will continue to regulate the sexual lives of those who do not marry. It will continue to refuse to recognize our intimate relations -- including cohabiting partnerships -- as having the same rights or validity as a married couple. It will criminalize our consensual sex."
Fortunately, Raspberry maintains his composure and winds up
still favoring same-sex marriage. The queer left -- if it didn't
exist, the religious right would have to invent it!