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Pro-Gay-Marriage Mayor Gavin Newsom Is Engaged

Gavin Newsom, the 40-year-old mayor of San Francisco who famously made gay marriage legal for a brief period in 2004 before the California Supreme Court stepped in, is engaged to his girlfriend, the actress Jennifer Siebel, 33. (You can learn everything you've ever wanted to know about her, from the death of her sister to her affection for Jane Goodall here on her personal website.)

Mayor Newsom's formal engagement to a woman (he proposed while they were vacationing in Hawaii -- how much more old-fashioned can you get?) just goes to prove how traditional marriage will continue to thrive in spite of the existence of gay marriage -- as will affairs and divorce, which Mr. Newsom also knows something about.


Gay marriage has been legal in Massachusetts for years now, with no evidence of damage to the institution of marriage. As of this week, New Hampshire is upholding civil unions. Meanwhile, all of us straight married people have not had our rights infringed upon by the slow extension of marriage to our gay counterparts, have we?

And we suspect that even if (when?) gay marriage becomes legal across the country, there will be no end to the nuclear family -- nor the bickering car trips and in-law visits that go along with it. Being married is wonderful and hard, and more people should do it, not less.

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.



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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.

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