GOODRIDGE

I'm with SKBubba on this one, basically. Even though the campaign rhetoric next year is likely to be unedifying at best, I look forward to being able to advance the argument that Americans are fundamentally generous people who are not threatened by the possibility of extending marriage to same-sex couples. There has been a predictable reaction from some quarters to Goodridge and related developments, but I predict that those who want to advance an exclusionary approach here will probably stumble over the fact that Americans are basically tolerant, sensible, forward-looking people who do not need to define themselves primarily by whom they exclude from the enjoyment of official recognition of the seriousness of their love of each other. The anxieties expressed by some folks will look like private obsessions rather than grounds for the use of the legal power of the state.

And in the meantime, read Adam Felber's Save My Marriage. Try not to read it while you're eating, unless you've got someone around who knows how to do the Heimlich maneuver. Or a good, sturdy chair.

MORE: Case name error corrected. Where's my editor?

MORE: The folks from the DNC make a similar point here. That's something. I hope that we're right.