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• Seattle mayor to recognize gay marriages | Seattle's mayor said Sunday the city will begin recognizing the marriages of gay employees who tie the knot elsewhere, although it will not conduct its own same-sex weddings (Associated Press)
  
  

Gay marriage:

• Gay marriage licenses create a quandary for the clergy | There is also a deeply political undercurrent to the religious weddings that is creating divisions in some institutions, even those with a history of blessing gay and lesbian partnerships (The New York Times)
  
  
• Az. county halts mail-in marriage licenses | Phoenix-area heterosexual couples who plan to marry must now appear in person to obtain a marriage license because officials halted a mail-in program amid the controversy over same-sex marriages (Associated Press)
  
  
• Gay union legislation defeated in Maryland | House bills would have banned legal recognition (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Together in a parade, but not on gay unions | At the Saint Patrick's Day march, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg found himself in a civil union of sorts with the mayor of New Paltz, whose signature issue is gay marriage. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Gay-rights foes see opportunity in furor | Even as they issue dire warnings, many longtime opponents of the gay-rights movement are welcoming the furor over same-sex marriage as a chance to expand the audience for their unfavorable views of homosexuality (Associated Press)
  
  
• Head-to-head: Should the US Constitution ban gay marriage? | Here, two commentators on either side of the divide give their views on whether a Constitutional amendment is necessary (BBC)
  
  
• Same-sex marriage vaulted into spotlight | This momentous culture clash has become a sort of cyclone, in which pro and con fuel and feed on each other in a rapidly tightening circle (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Marriage is paramount, gays agree | Couples who forced the legalization issue in Massachusetts say they want the rights and benefits conferred only through wedlock (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Gay legislator at the center of a storm in Georgia | Karla Drenner has become the most visible — and derided — opponent of an effort to enact a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage (The New York Times)
  
  

Opinion:

• A marriage made in history? | Rather than overextending marriage, society should find alternative ways to solemnize the wide variety of human relationships (Don Browning and Elizabeth Marquhardt, The New York Times)
  
  
• Discrimination redefined | Are homosexuals the only Americans permitted to change the definition of marriage or do people with other sex orientations have that right as well? (Walter Williams, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Gay marriage? How straight | Many gay men and lesbians like their status as couples living between the lines, free of all the societal expectations that marriage brings (Bob Morris, The New York Times)
  
  
• Power of two | The president's stealth defense of gay marriage (Jonathan Rauch, The New York Times)
  
  
• The road to gay marriage | Same-sex marriage seems destined to have the same trajectory as every other march of marginalized Americans into the mainstream: from being too outlandish to be taken seriously, to being branded offensive and lawless, to eventual acceptance (Editorial, The New York Times)
  
  

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