Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review section carried a remarkable article by Clifford Kraus on Canadian gay marriage. Gay marriage has been legal in much of Canada for some time, but very few gays are actually getting married. At the same time, the rate of parental cohabitation among Canadian heterosexuals is rising. Much of the gay community rejects the traditional idea of marriage–apparently even including those gays who actually get married. The picture Krauss paints of Canada is much like the one I’ve described for Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Yet when every sign says that gay marriage in Canada is likely to weaken the institution, Kraus simply shrugs off the social consequences and ends with praise of heightened “choice.” This piece is all the more powerful as an indictment of gay marriage for coming from a reporter who favors gay marriage, and could care less about the social effects he describes. Meanwhile, Canada has been taken up with a debate over the possibility that gay marriage will force recognition of polygamy. The latest development is a legal opinion from British Columbia calling anti-polygamy laws vulnerable.