Der (“No Two Ways About It”) Gropenfuhrer renegged on a
allegations of his sexual, potentially criminal behavior toward
stand for anyone mocking the law when it comes to gay marriage. “It’s time for the city to stop
traveling down this dangerous path of ignoring the rule of law,” he told a convention of
Republicans on Friday. “That’s my
California columnist Jim Washburn disagrees: “An 86-year-old sleazeball
can marry an 18-year-old dominatrix, and that is sanctified. Larry King can marry for the seventh
time, and it’s sanctified. Britney Spears can get married and annulled quicker than you can say
‘publicity whore,’ and it is sanctified. Yet a gay couple that has stuck it out through better and
worse for 40 years, being exemplary neighbors and citizens the whole while, poses a threat to
marriage? It is legal for them to marry, of course, just not to each other. They could go out this
afternoon and marry a total stranger, so long as it’s someone of the opposite sex. That’s the law.
What’s left to mock?”
