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Same-sex marriage is becoming a national inevitability. A cascade of court opinions, significant public support, not to mention increasingly sympathetic gay couples and increasingly implausible opposition—all these and more point to an emerging national consensus that “gay marriage” is actually a form of “marriage.” It’s not exactly clear when the hump took place—but we definitely seem to be over it. ............................................................ And what about those post-racial and post-gender millennials? What happens when a queer-identified, mostly-heterosexual woman with plenty of LGBT friends gets married? Do we really think that because she is “from Venus,” she will be interested in a heteronormative,...

A liberal who calls himself a conservative is still a liberal. Except to liberals. Since turning conservatism into an echo of their own thoughts is job one for them, they are happy to describe liberals who calls themselves conservatives as "conservative." The liberals at the New York Times, for example, designate David Brooks as their "conservative" columnist, even as he takes a position on homosexual marriage to the left of the Democratic presidential field. "He's every liberal's favorite conservative," Michael Kinsley, editor of Slate, said to the New York Observer. "People were always stopping me, saying that they liked his...