The idea that conservative opposition to homosexual marriage is always based on either ignorance or bigotry is, of course, nonsense, but then so too is the idea that it is impossible to make a conservative case for changing the law to permit such a thing. In today’s New York Times David Brooks makes that conservative case as well as anyone I have seen, and if you doubt that it’s conservative (at least in one sense) check out his first paragraph, which makes Bill Bennett look like Doctor Ruth.