Marriage

A couple of interesting posts at Pam's House Blend. A candidate's position on full marriage equality will be a tie-breaker for me. This post is a good summary of the candidates' positions on it right now. I'm afraid I see a "marriage, no; civil unions, yes" position as a cop-out, an indication of lack of spine (such as we seem to be seeing with the Iraq funding bill right now). After all these years of investigating the question, I have yet to see a rational argument against. (On a related topic, Chris Crain gives us a run-down of leading Democrats' positions on the Uniting American Families Act.)

This post draws a very good picture of just why civil unions just don't cut it.