Newsweek has a very good article this week about gay marriage, specifically the upcoming federal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 being argued by Ted Olson. The really interesting thing is that Olson is a political conservative who served under both Reagan and George W. Bush. But he’s written a very well-reasoned and heartfelt argument as to why denying gays to marry is wrong, and he has a good track record in cases he’s argued, so it’ll be interesting to see what he does.

One of the more absurd things he points out is how there are currently 18,000 same-sex marriages in California, which occurred before Prop 8 and are recognized by the state. But these same people, if they got divorced, could not remarry. As he puts it, the situation in California is open to a good challenge, as it really “makes no sense to anyone.”