Andrew Sullivan is unsurprisingly overjoyed:
Looking back on two decades of struggle, past the ashes of so many, to the clearing on which we now stand, it's hard not to weep. Two decades ago, marriage for gays was a pipe-dream. Some of us were ridiculed for even thinking of the idea. And yet here we are. Past the vicious attack from the president, past the cynical manipulation by Rove, past the cowardice of so many Democrats, past the rank hypocrisy of the Clintons, past the inertia of the Human Rights Campaign, past the false dawn in San Francisco, and the countless, countless debates and speeches and books and articles and op-eds. Yes, we have much more to do. Yes, we still have to win over those who see our loves as somehow destructive of the families we seek merely to affirm. Yes, we don't have federal recognition of our basic civic equality. Yes, in many, many states, we have been locked out of equality for a generation, because of the politics of fear and backlash. But look how far we've come. From a viral holocaust to full equality – somewhere in America, in the commonwealth where American freedom was born. In two decades. This is history. What a privilege to have witnessed it.
I never thought gay marriage was a high priority for the country, but that's easy for me to say given that I and another failed state heterosexual could tie the knot and get all sorts of nice tax and estate benefits.
The best argument against the legalization of gay marriage has actually come from within the gay community itself: Isn't this going to end the long, proud tradition of living at an acute angle to society, being the witty and subversive uncle who always brings a "friend" home for Thanksgiving? W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman made de facto couplehood work; so did Gore Vidal and Howard Austen.
Marriage is very bourgeois, but then, Andrew long ago predicted the end of gay culture. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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