“How excited can the [Republican] base really get over a constitutional amendment [to ban same-sex marriage] that the vice president’s own wife, Lynne Cheney, has said is a bad idea? Maybe the fact that the Cheneys have an openly gay daughter has no bearing on her conclusion that the issue should be left up to the states, though it would only be human if this had influenced her thinking, in the same way that Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s turned his family into advocates for stem-cell research. All politics are personal.”

“This President has decided it will help him politically to tear us apart [via the same-sex marriage issue]. His base is restless over government spending and Iraq, and this is a means to placate and energize it. If that means turning a tiny minority into a lethal threat to civilization, so be it. If that minority’s sole crime is to seek to live in fidelity, uphold the family, support responsibility, then that also is beside the point. In this battle, the President has shown his true colors. He is a divider, not a uniter.”

“Almost the first thing that The Fab Five do to a bearish guy on ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ is to shave off his beard, often making him look worse than he was when they started.”