KURTZ

My piece opposite responds to some of the fears fanned by Stanley Kurtz in recent articles on National Review Onine. One amendment to the piece: I wrote, “Read [Stanley Kurtz’s] original piece, “The Right Balance,” in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment and try and find a mention of equal protection. Good luck.” With a bit of luck, you can, in fact, find a reference. My bad. There is one sentence at the end of a paragraph where he mentions it. It’s a little easy to miss since almost the entire argument is devoted to the Full Faith and Credit Clause. My point remains, however. Kurtz once first fanned the flames of hysteria, by saying that the FFC would nationalize gay marriage. Now he says that equal protection arguments will nationalize it. The first is almost impossible; the second extremely unlikely in the foreseeable future. But Kurtz wants to amend the U.S. Constitution right now even to avoid the remote possibility of gay citizens enjoying equal rights under the law at some time in the future.