IS GAY MARRIAGE INEVITABLE?

uExpress, June, 2008 by Maggie Gallagher

What's all the fuss about?

A couple of hundred same-sex couples in California flock to the justice of the peace -- why should anybody care?

This is the single most powerful argument for gay marriage out there: Why should you care?

The second most powerful argument is its twin sister: Gay marriage is inevitable, so stop worrying about it.

Oddly, at the moment of its greatest apparent victory, the consequences of gay marriage are becoming ever more clear.

As the gay marriage movement becomes more confident of inevitable victory, it is also becoming more open and explicit about what gay marriage will mean for the rest of us.

For example, redefining "infidelity." Back in the '90s, when Andrew Sullivan first suggested gay couples had...

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