In today’s Washington Post, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit writes that conservatives betray conservatism by proposing to amend either the federal constitution, or those of the states, to protect traditional marriage. I think Judge Wilkinson gets very nearly everything quite wrong in this piece, but his multi-layered, compact argument can’t be unpacked here in a paragraph or two. It will take something like his 1100 words, or a series of blog posts. I’ll have more to say later, either way.