The Washington Post leads today with a poll of 1,003 Americans demonstrating that 60 percent disapprove of the Episcopal Church’s decision to allow its bishops to bless committed homosexual relationships. They also found 58 percent oppose “civil unions,” giving gay couples some of the same legal rights as married couples. And yet all the Democrats rush to represent the 37 percent minority.

The most unintentionally funny paragraph of the story is this one, in an attempt to rebut the poll: “Other surveys have found, however, that some opponents of same-sex unions would tolerate extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples. A recent survey by the Human Rights Campaign found that 33 percent supported granting civil marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples ‘as long as churches do not have to recognize or perform these marriages.’ An additional 17 percent would accept extending those rights to gay couples but ‘do not support it.’ Nearly half, 47 percent, said they were opposed.”

What makes this funny to me is that when we appeared together on CNBC, HRC leader Elizabeth Birch acted dumbfounded when I said majorities oppose what proponents call gay marriage. “What poll is that?” she demanded. By my math, even HRC’s qualification-stuffed poll shows that 64 percent do not support it, and that’s from a lobbying group for gay moral equivalence! Don’t count on the media finding a “mainstream” and an “extreme” on this issue…