I’m sort of on a roll of unpleasantly political posts lately, which I try to avoid. I can’t really not link Scalzi on the framing of gay marriage, though:
There’s a manifest difference in a debate which has as its founding proposition that same-sex marriage is a theoretical construct in the US — which is the proposition marriage bigots want to promote — and the debate which has as its founding proposition that same-sex marriages are already here, and there thousands of them. The latter forces the marriage bigots to come out and admit that their proposed amendment and their goals destroy real marriages between real people — thousands of marriages between thousands of people.
Read, as they say, the whole thing.