An interesting battle is shaping up between renowned bigot Robert George of Princeton University and Andrew Sullivan, blogger from The Atlantic over a vicious and misleading editorial George published in The Wall Street Journal. The battle is being summarized at USA Today.

The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan is on a tear in The Daily Dish today. He says “be straight or go away” is the blunt and — by his lights unacceptable — underlying message of a leading Catholic traditionalist who opposes gay marriage.

What set Sullivan off is a Wall Street Journal essay by Robert George, professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and founder of the American Principles Project.

George’s essay is (mostly) focused on the idea that if the U.S. Supreme Court were to legalize same-sex marriage as a federal right that would be a dreadful mistake, comparable to the legal havoc that has come in the wake of Roe v. Wade when abortion laws moved out of the hands of states.

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