My wife and I saw a trailer for Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar recently, and boy, does it look good. As we watched, my wife leaned over and told me about Eastwood’s recent GQ musings about human rights in general and gay marriage in particular:
“I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War,” Eastwood tells the magazine. “And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let’s spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.”
Make a “get off my lawn” joke if you want, but Eastwood’s right about what the modern GOP becomes when put in the hands of Michele Bachmann and other dominionists in libertarian clothing. Americans of any or no party can certainly be of good will while holding some disparate political beliefs in tension, but we need to be honest about it. There’s certainly no good will coming from quarters that want to curtail gay rights.
Chris Cocca 
I love that line at the end: “…let’s spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.”
Seriously. If my marriage or yours is affected by other people getting married… the problem lies with me, not them.