Marriage, schmarriage!

Gavin Newsom, San Fransisco's mayor, has announced that he and his wife of three years are getting divorced. The couple cited the difficulties of dealing with careers--which they had before they met, got engaged, and wed--that place them on opposite coasts. Now, recall that this is the same mayor who granted marriage licenses to 4000 gay and lesbian couples in violation of California law and in the process contributed to the political firestorm that resulted in the passage of 11 state contitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage to say nothing of President Bush's support for amending the U.S. Constitution to do the same. I guess we now more fully understand what was going on: I don't doubt that he believes in marriage equality for gays and lesbians, but now we also see that his regard for marriage is something less than traditional for heterosexuals as well.