Ross Douthat: How should conservative politics approach same-sex relationships?

Ross Douthat writing at his New York Times blog: “Basically, [conservatives] should have pushed (in, let’s say, the early 1980s) for what Ryan Anderson and Sherif Girgis have urged as a contemporary compromise: A domestic partnership law designed to accommodate gay couples without being sexuality-specific. (In other words, it would be available to any couple who couldn’t legally marry each other: A pair of cohabitating siblings or cousins could enter into it as well, for instance.) . . . “