“[Sen.] Larry Craig isn’t simply ‘a nasty, naughty, bad boy,’ as the senator famously called Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Larry Craig is a confused and closeted gay man unable to connect the dots between his sexuality and his belief in marriage and family. ... Craig’s personal story is a cautionary tale in support of gay rights as consistent with marriage and family values. Craig should never have married a woman in the first place, and his scandal is a reminder that legal recognition for gay relationships can help other closet cases see an alternative to attempting heterosexual marriage, with all the collateral damage to unwitting spouse and children.”

“The New York Times ran 15 articles on [Sen. Larry] Craig’s guilty plea to ‘disorderly conduct’ in a bathroom. The Washington Post ran 20 articles on Craig. MSNBC covered it like it was the first moon landing – three small taps for a man, one giant leap for public gay sex!”

“Couples, such as plaintiffs, who are otherwise qualified to marry one another may not be denied licenses to marry or certificates of marriage or in any other way prevented from entering into a civil marriage ... by reason of the fact that both persons comprising such a couple are of the same sex. [State marriage law] must be read and applied in a gender neutral manner so as to permit same-sex couples to enter into a civil marriage.”