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Yours truly, married with three kids, and a churchgoer, supports the recognition of gay marriage, for somewhat quirky reasons that don't matter to this article. (I spell out my quirky reasons here, contending there is a religious argument for same-gender unions.) American society is now inalterably on track to broad if not universal acceptance of gay marriage and, when the razzle is over, future generations will wonder why the whole matter was controversial in the first place. I don't think same-gender union will usher in the Age of Aquarius: Married homosexuals will bicker, become unhappy, and divorce at about the...

Three-fifths of Americans oppose Bush's mission to moon, Mars WASHINGTON (AFP) - More than three-fifths of Americans oppose President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s proposal to return to the moon and eventually put a human on Mars, according to a poll. His plan to spend billions of dollars to manned mission to the moon and eventually to Mars drew opposition from 61 percent of the 1,003 adults surveyed January 14-15. Bush called late Wednesday for a new space vessel capable of traveling to the moon as early as 2015. He would give the US space agency NASA (news...