An interesting 40 minute diavlog about the above topic.
Just for the record, as of EOY CY 2008/5769, I'm split on this topic. If I had my druthers I would support civil unions. But, if you want to argue, like apparently the CT State supreme court did recently, that civil unions are "separate but equal" and that therefore should be overturned under Brown v Board logic, then, if you stuck a metaphorical gun to my head, I would choose gay marriage. Very reluctantly, and actually NOT on a national basis, only on a state by state basis. I would vote against it on a national basis. I want states to be allowed to be "laboratories of democracy" to quote Louis Brandeis. Marriage is NOT obviously a civil right to me. Just because two consenting adults love each other, doesn't mean we need to "bless" the union. I have no problem saying love between two gay people is just as real as between two heterosexual people. If, as also seems to be the case, Disney wants to have weddings performed between homosexual couples at their parks, more power to them. I believe in Hayekian concepts of cultural changes. In other words, evolutionary ground up changes. So in my case, voting for it on the state level, against judges forcing it upon us, and against voting for on a national level, until we have any idea the effects of it.
