But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate;
whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.