Marriage Day

I've been sitting here for some time trying to figure out what I'm going to write today. I thought of simply listing the headlines of various papers. The New York Times is Gay Weddings Begin, which strikes me as appropriately simple. I could go long and thoughtful, but Andy Sullivan has done that better than I could, also in the NYTimes. (He's also written an excellent book. He says so himself.)

Thing is, Andy is the only blogger I read who's talked about it in detail, and he helped kick off the marriage debate in a 1989 TNR piece. Everyone else is focused on other things. And the coverage in the papers is not very splashy. The Salt Lake Tribune's front page today had relegated the story to a below-the-fold small headline.

Well, I've been saying, along with others, that marriage will be a bit of an anti-climax. May 17th, 2004 is not going to be remembered quite as well as May 17th, 1954, the day Brown v. Board of Education was handed down.

So no big headlines; no long introspectives. But I do want to stop for a second and say, to a hundred Boston couples and to everyone in a country that just did something good, "congratulations."

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