But the miscegenation analogy, the favorite of same-sex marriage's proponents, is misleading.

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It wasn't right for anti-miscegenation laws to march into our bedrooms in the summer of 1958, and it's not right for Prop 8 and DOMA to do it now.

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Even granting that the case of homosexuals is more complex than the case of miscegenation, the state should presume against discriminating especially when handing out something as important as a marriage licence.

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In the meantime, Romney did some executive huffing and puffing, summoning up a dusty 1914 miscegenation statute that barred out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union was prohibited at home.

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That we are of the same generation is significant, I think, because we are of a generation that came out of that moment when there were still over 20 states that had anti-miscegenation laws, and that we grew up in a time when those laws were gradually changing and being done away with.

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