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Don't know about sunsong's previous post history, but it's hard to see that just by posting an article here by Glenn Reynolds, of all people, as a topic for discussion that anybody's promoting special privileges for homosexuals. You're not trying to say that we are restricted from debating this at all are you? I'll put up my straight, Christian conservative credentials (as I'm sure, from reading her post, that Bokababe could too) against anybody else's on FR, but there's lots of room for rational dispute about the proper extent of any government's role in the institution of marriage. It'd be a real shame if FR became a place where knee-jerk preaching to the choir is all that's allowed anymore. (Beliefs that are never allowed to be challenged aren't really beliefs are they?)
I think that Instapundit (Glen Reynolds) is right. Some form of gay marriage – whether civil unions or domestic partnerships or something else will happen. Maybe it will will 20 years from now. Maybe it will only be ten. Maybe it will be less. The Connecticut legislature has already passed legislation. The NY legislature may approve of something. People like yourself who try to control the debate and retreat into the past – won’t know what happened or how it happened if you continue to cover your eyes and ears and only receive information that you agree with.