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I've got an alternative to propose to Andrew Sullivan. I'll get behind gay marriage if gays get behind criminal anti-adultery laws with teeth for both heterosexuals and gays. Want marriage to mean something? Let's make it a true monogamous contract enforced with criminal laws if you are caught having sex with someone other than your spouse, even if your spouse consents. How many gays do you think would go for that?

"...a true monogamous contract enforced with criminal laws if you are caught having sex with someone other than your spouse..."

I don't know about the gays, but I well remember a news story from a while back (in pre-internet/24 hr news cycle days-darn I feel old and new at the same time now, how wierd!), about a woman in Connecticutt (I think, somewhere around here) who was urging the State Troopers to go arrest her hubby who was off with his honey in some motel or wherever. Of course the troopers weren't biting, and it became a bit of a flap.

I heard a state legislator quoted to the effect of: these laws would have been off the books years ago, but no one wants to stand up on the floor and defend adultery.

Don't know whatever happened in this case, or re: Ct's anti-adultery laws. But, this brings me to the #1 reason I am opposed to gay marriage, six months later we'll have gay divorce and it won't be some old Astaire musical.