Compromising To A Fault

Noah Millman responds to Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn:

From a Federal perspective, marriage is mostly about money; all the interesting stuff (divorce, inheritance, age of consent, degrees of consanguinity) happens at the state level. Why do the Feds need to write a specific law creating a Federal concept of civil unions, and enmesh itself in marriage law, when that has always been a state matter?...My proposed alternative – repeal DoMA, pass a law clarifying how religious institutions are exempt from certain anti-discrimination laws, and let the courts sort out the rest – doesn’t single out gays, Federalize marriage law, coerce the states, or usurp the proper role of the courts.