To offer marriage reflects the search for legitimisation of homosexual unions—but there are other and better paths to the same end.

ECONOMIST: Gay marriage, debated

Alice herself, well played by the grave and spectrally pallid Mia Wasikowska, is no child but a stubborn young lady, scorning an offer of marriage in the overworld and descending, instead, to the subterranean.

NEWYORKER: Alice in Wonderland

If Leahy were to offer a gay marriage amendment, attention would turn to Sens.

NPR: Study: Immigration Bill Would Help Social Security

For those computer users with significant content needs dual storage approaches like the Fusion Drive as well as hybrid HDDs could offer an ideal marriage of capacity and speed.

FORBES: Will A Fusion Drive Approach Become Widespread in Computers?

Other countries, such as Colombia, do not recognise gay marriage but do offer civil guarantees, including the right to draw a pension if one partner dies.

BBC: Q&A: Argentina gay marriage law

Live and let live arguments offer compelling logic for legalizing sodomy, but misfire badly regarding marriage.

FORBES: Marriage Is A Private Matter That's None Of The Federal Government's Business

As he seeks to arrange a new marriage of convenience with Damascus, will Secretary Baker offer to drop Syria from the list of nations sponsoring international terrorism — as was done with Iraq in the early 1980s?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Security Policy In The Post-Kuwait World

The bill will allow same-sex marriage and let religious organisations which want to, to offer them, the culture department says.

BBC: Gay marriage: MPs set to vote on proposals for the first time

By patiently letting legislatures and the voters decide the social and practical implications of same-sex marriage over the past decade, the high court is now poised to perhaps offer the final word on tricky constitutional questions.

CNN: Obama views on same-sex marriage reflect societal shifts

The president also will offer an olive branch to the evangelical Christian base when Congressional leaders raise the same-sex marriage ban again.

CNN: Stay tuned for another swing in the campaign