Jesus wept; didn't Mohammad?

I am numbed as I read about the barbaric execution of two Iranian teenagers for having gay sex. Can a nation long survive with one foot in modernity and another is the Dark Ages? Can the U.S. ever have normal relations, including commerce, with a government and a people ho support the murder of my brothers?

Don't blame me....

Finally, an explanation on the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times for why gay marriage is simply another step in the evolution of an institution that, regardless of its sanctity or lack thereof, has been changing in profound ways for the past century.