Anyone notice that the leading nations in the World Cup Soccer all allow gay marriage or gay civil unions? Spain (marriage), the Netherlands (marriage), Uruguay (civil unions), and Germany (civil unions).
I doubt that there’s any causal link here, but it at least shows that the “masculinity” of the men of the nations is unthreatened and uncompromised by letting some men (and women) marry people of the same sex.
Just a wry note.
– Fiona of Takoma, blogging in the the New York Times on 15 July 2010