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JONATHAN ADLER ON TED OLSON ON GAY MARRIAGE. Plus some further thoughts from Dale Carpenter. My ta?

By Glenn Reynolds

JONATHAN ADLER ON TED OLSON ON GAY MARRIAGE. Plus some further thoughts from Dale Carpenter. My take is similar to Dale’s, I think — I favor gay marriage and would enact it myself if allowed to, but I don’t believe that litigation is the way to go at present; it’s unlikely to succeed and it’s likely to generate backlash if it does. I think that acceptance of gay marriage is only a matter of time, and not a while lot of time at that, and that changes via litigation are less likely to be seen as legitimate than changes via legislation. Of course, with an anti-gay-marriage President in the White House, I guess it’s hard to put a lot of faith in electoral politics right now . . . .

UPDATE: Thoughts from Andrew Marcus. Yeah, separating marriage and state would be best, but I see that as the least likely outcome, alas.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).