Incidentally, Dale Carpenter is guest-blogging there this week and has done an excellent job.
For example, here he rebuts a potential Edmund Burke-style argument against gay marriage.
(Gay marriage is so obviously a Good Thing for gay couples themselves (at least the ones who want it, just as marriage is a good thing for the straight couples who want it) that the debate takes an interesting turn. Opponents should do a better job than they actually do of explaining what harm they think will come. Carpenter's spent the past couple days rebutting arguments -- commenters have accused him of setting up straw men, though I can't think of any anti-gay marriage argument that he hasn't not only addressed but also treated quite fairly. Early in the week he was making the case for why gay marriage concretely benefits hundreds of thousands of real people, and the case was so easy that I think he even felt sheepish about it, though it's the sort of thing that probably needs to be pointed out over and over again to win people over.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at November 4, 2005 11:48 AM