I not a big fan of marriage - gay or otherwise. I would prefer a world where we Americans all get to have health insurance and a decent retirement and the ability to leave our estates to someone we love regardless of our domestic arrangements. However, if we're going to provide lots of benefits to married people that single people can't have, then damn it same sex couples should be able to have them too.

The NY Times "Weddings & Celebrations" page on Sunday made sure we remember who really counts. On a day when they reported on the marriage of Terrence McNally (a quite commercially if not always artistically successful playwright) and Thomas Kirdahy, they stick it down on the page without a photo, after the heteros. I would have expected that to be the featured event on the page, given that he lives in NYC and his plays are regularly produced in big theatres.

Which ceremony did they choose for the "Vows" feature? Senator John Warner's third marriage, in DC, to an Alexandria, VA real estate agent.

Nice priorities.