Money quote from Chuck Muth, Arizona Republican:
FMA is a solution in search of a problem. No state court has yet to rule in favor of recognizing “gay marriages.” But even if one or more states do recognize gay marriages, federal law already defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. And while FMA proponents say the Full Faith & Credit clause of the Constitution would force states to recognize gay marriages from other states, other legal scholars contend it won’t. Shouldn’t we at least wait to see if something is broken before trying to fix it?
Meanwhile, there’s more evidence that the argument for at least some kind of civil union for gay citizens is gaining ground.
MARTIN SMITH, LEFTIST: Interesting background on Martin Smith, producer of the Frontline attack on the Iraq War. Well, actually not that interesting. He’s another baby-boom lefty “child of the 1960s” who went into public television and documentaries to advance his liberal ideas:
“I was a Conscientious Objector during the war years. I did alternative service work, and when I came back to school, I went back to New York University Film School. I didn’t think that I was going to be making documentaries, but I gravitated toward documentaries immediately, because there was an immediacy to them. You didn’t wait around for people to get their make-up right or for the set to get built, and you just went out and shot things… Yes, I was a child of the sixties, and I was at half of the demonstrations, and all the concerts.”
Good for him. But please don’t try and persuade us he’s only interested in the truth. He’s an anti-war propagandist of the classic kind. I just wish I didn’t have to pay any part of his salary.
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