I’m off to my congressional hearing on Title VI. In the meantime, here’s a response to Andrew Sullivan’s latest comments on gay marriage. Andrew Sullivan continues to miss or ignore my point about lesbian marriage, which is at least as likely to disrupt monogamous norms as is gay marriage-–but here, through the eventual legalization of three parent families, leading to legalized polyamory. And as I argued in “Code of Honor,” the effect of even relatively small numbers of people who deny the very premises of a collective “honor code” can be disproportionately great. This is particularly true if the media focuses on and magnifies, as it will, the “cutting edge” forms of open marriage being pioneered by the new homosexual couples. It is also particularly true if a substantial portion of homosexual couples themselves want to transform marriage, which they do. It’s also important to note that many gay couples who do not buy into traditional monogamy may well marry anyway, for the benefits. But all these effects together, and you get a powerful engine of change. And that’s not even taking into account the tendency of a precedent for redefining marriage to bring about legalized polyamory, which already has a large constituency waiting to argue for legalized group marriage based on the same-sex marriage example. But I’ll have much more on all this after Massachusetts.