It doesn't have to be this way...

But it doesn't have to be this way.

"The conflict could easily be avoided if both sides would embrace an ethic of genuine tolerance and diversity," Duncan said, "recognizing that we are going to see things in different ways. As long as people work within the normal system for making laws, then we are going to have to live with each other. We are going to have to convince each other of our point of view. Right now that's not happening.

The age of compromise, where we debated Reciprocal Beneficiaries and Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions, lasted only a few years. I've heard it argued that these compromises were never what they wanted anyway, and oddly enough that might be true about marriage.

The article is, oddly enough, about the conflict between religion and the law in the wake of Judge Walker's decision.