Gay Marriage. "Watching the lines form around the block at San Francisco City Hall, seeing couples streaming into town from all over California and beyond, many of them having been together for years or even decades, it is hard not to support their cause: marriage for all. It is also difficult to understand what frightens some people about gay marriage, why opponents think that it would somehow undermine the institution to allow same-sex couples to celebrate it, and to have their unions recognized by government. But gay marriage isn't the only issue at stake in San Francisco this week, nor the most important. What is at issue is the rule of law, and whether one public official, even if his cause is just, has the right to take the law he has been sworn to uphold into his own hands .. ". MORE Daniel Weintraub.
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