Jonah, Ramesh: Seems to me these libertarians e-mailing in saying “let’s get govt. out of the marriage business” might as well call themselves Anarchists. Their line seems to be: “We don’t need no steenkin government to tell us what marriage is. We got our churches to do that for us.” The

logic here is:

—Marriage is a private thing between two people.

—The govt has no business messing in our private lives.

Both are tenable, just about. Problem is, they throw 2,300 yrs of

conservative thinking down the trash chute.

Come on. We are being invited to join a revolution here. And it’s not a

conservative revolution.