It's for the children

Sometimes he's an asshole, but Andrew Sullivan is dead on in his Sunday comments about Sen. Santorum's recent comments, and about the conservative position on homosexual marriage:

Wouldn't these people be far more persuasive if they offered an alternative to marriage? It would certainly make them seem far less homophobic. They could take the position that they'd be happy to have civil unions but draw the line at marriage - and they'd get a lot of support. So why don't they? Could it be that their real agenda is not simply keeping marriage exclusively heterosexual but keeping gays as marginalized and stigmatized as possible?

It is both compelling and unique, Sullivan's argument. Moreover, it exposes the inherent hypocrasy of reducing state control in every facet of life but the one guided by religion. In an amusing note earlier, he sugggests a constitutional amendment prohibiting divorce as far more salient and pressient to the Catholic Church. Nice.

Also, if anyone on earth hasn't seen this yet, blow off the next hour of work: Get Your War On