'Gay Marriage': Vows

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review: "Vermont has introduced ''civil unions'' for gays, Belgium and the Netherlands have legalized gay marriages and courts have mandated them in both Ontario and Massachusetts, stopping gay marriage appears to require measures (like an amendment to the Constitution) more reactionary than Americans will countenance. What opponents of single-sex marriage have failed miserably to do is enunciate a rationale for blocking it that the country can rally behind. "