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Maggie Gallagher Flashback
ByGood As You digs up a 1996 editorial by Gallagher calling DOMA too timid. Jim Burroway plucks out this bit:
[C]onsider what the bill, in its timidity, does not do: It does not
ban gay marriage. It doesn’t even require that states that adopt gay
marriage do so through democratic means. To the citizens of Hawaii,
where a handful of lawyers appear poised to impose gay marriage on the
majority, the federal government turns its back, offering no relief. A
nation which a hundred years ago unself-consciously refused to admit
Utah as a state unless and until it renounced polygamy, no longer has
enough moral confidence to insist on a common culture of marriage. As I said: timid.
That slippery slope goes both ways.
