Reid: States Should Decide Marriage Issue

(WASHINGTON) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it’s legal for same-sex couples to marry. The Nevada Democrat says he believes that people should marry whomever they want, and that, in his words, “it’s no business of mine [...]

ABC News: Obama Gives Support to Same-Sex Marriage

(WASHINGTON) — Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement fraught with history that also injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House. “I have hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought that civil unions would be sufficient,” Obama [...]

A Spokesperson for Marriage

National Review editor Rich Lowry, writing in the new issue of TIME on the social implications of the decline of marriage, has a suggestion: No one wants to be preachy about marriage when everyone knows its inevitable frustrations. (“Marriage is a wonderful institution,” H.L. Mencken said, “but who would want to live in an institution?”) [...]

Obama’s Tax Plan

In a WSJ editorial this morning Obama economic advisors Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee unveiled details of Obama’s economic plan. It contained some surprises (capital gains of 20%, not 25% as had been widely assumed). And at least one provision that the GOP latched onto as detrimental to marriage (Obama would raise taxes on couples [...]