Law and Marriage.(conservative social agenda threatens liberty and justice)(Column)

These days I settle for small and subtle signs of progress. Take the story in the February 15 Washington Post on the demise of a proposal in the Virginia legislature that would have required public-school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. State Senator Warren E. Barry--the outraged sponsor of the legislation, which was amended by his senate colleagues--blamed "libertarians and liberals" on the education committee of Virginia's house of representatives for softening his bill by exempting students who had a religious or philosophical objection to reciting the ...