I do not recognize two men or two women as a “real” married couple, and won’t regardless of their legal status. I’ll still be friends, just like I’m friends with pretty much anybody else that will be friendly with me. As a result, I really don’t care much about their legal status.

Frankly, I think “they” (whoever “they” are) are about to make a big mistake, but Bush could similarly make a big mistake if he pushes too hard on the Constitutional amendment idea. Just like Roe v Wade effectively ended the possibility of any sort of rational discussion on abortion, so too would either a for-or-against decision at the federal level do nothing but dig trenches and harden views. Better, I think, to let it be battled out on a state-by-state basis.

Frankly, I’d be happiest with a government that wasn’t involved in the marriage business at all. There has been much discussion around the net about how that would work. Anybody can be named an insurance beneficiary and so on.