"Marc Phillips" wrote

This is just one of those non-issues that continue to waste our time.
It's
time to stop worrying about what other consenting adults are doing behind
closed doors, and start solving some real problems.

Right on. But because Dubya not only attacked "gay marriage" in his SOTU
address, and in the Russert interview, and has been squawking like a stuck
pig about the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision, what's happening in San
Francisco represents the gay community's (and civil rights proponents')
protest to Dubya's shameless pandering to his "Christian Coalition" type of
constituency. It is Dubya's way of avoiding (distracting us from
distraction by distraction) all the other really serious issues he's
created, and which he has no articulate or rational or even honest answer
for, and which will haunt him for the next 8-9 months and which will drive
him out of office.

One gay man who recently got married in S.F. was quoted today as saying: "If
George Bush wants to turn gay marriage into a wedge issue, I'll give him a
wedgie." :-)