The attempt to legalize gay marriage through a campaign of civil disobedience is an important new development. What’s happening in San Francisco could easily spread to other municipalities. Santa Cruz California could be next. There are rumblings. in Austin Texas. This article from USA Today quotes a professor of constitutional law at USC predicting legal challenges on the California model in every state in the country.

The media is going to stoke this by treating it as a replay of the civil rights movement of the sixties. But the analogy between the gay marriage movement and the civil rights movement is seriously flawed, as I’ve shown in my writings on Scandinavia. Sex and sexuality have an intrinsic tie to the operations of marriage in a way that skin color does not. But the media-nowhere more biased than on the issue of gay marriage-is going to try to suppress the real argument.