From National Review Online

GEORGE WEIGEL

JUNE 27, 2011 4:00 A.M. ‘Gay Marriage,’ Libertarians, and Civil Rights Untangling several confusions. According to a New York Times story of June 25, an essential part of the coalition that brought “gay marriage” to the Empire State consisted of Republican financial high-rollers who gave Republican legislators cover for voting in favor of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “marriage equality” bill while generously funding the pro–“gay marriage” ground campaign, and who “were inclined to see the issue as one of personal freedom, consistent with their more libertarian views.” More intellectual and political confusion would be hard to pack into one sentence. To read the entire essay, go to

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