And so the breakdown of law spreads.

I don't want same-sex marriage to be the battle of our times. I don't like this issue. It's gooky. I'm not satisfied with the secular arguments that can be made, and I don't want to make the religious ones.

But I don't think it's a side issue I can ignore, either. We don't always get to choose where the battles of our times will be.

Even if right now I'm not doing much besides trying to take over the world by numbers . . .