Gays Right to Marry | The Baltimore Sun

WASHINGTON – Now that the Supremes have ruled that when it comes to consenting adults, you just have to stop interfering (in the name of love), the country seems atwitter over the effectthis ruling might have on marriage.

This is an interesting leap. Commentators are not anxious, for example, that legalizing sodomy will open the floodgates to other civil rights, affecting areas such as employment or housing discrimination. Curiously (or not, if you realize that marriage is that one institution that effectively obliterates the wall between church and state), this debate has now centered on marriage rights.

Heterosexuals may love the transformation wrought on hapless Butch in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but trading bons mots and teaching the finer points of hair gel application seem less threatening than the specter of matching tuxes or a bachelorette party at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Amid all this hoopla, it’s easy to believe that the gay community is unambivalent about this particularly freighted institution…. Read the full article on The Baltimore Sun.