Subject: Ethan Leib

• Will Gay Marriage Have to Wait for Democracy to Catch Up?

  History's Answer: Yes By Peter Jamison Since Californians voted to enshrine discrimination against gay couples in their state constitution on Nov. 4, the varied strains of lamentation from San Francisco's chattering classes have risen to a choral swell. The success of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, gave rise to all manner of complaint: Black voters killed the right of gays and lesbians to wed! So did churches! So did black churches! So did the class of first-graders who naively

  November 26, 2008