Dan Savage, the originator of santorum (named after everyone's favourite American vitriol-spouting American family man and American politician, Rick Santorum) savages New York and Washington state courts recent decision to uphold bans on same-sex marriages in those states in the Sunday Times. I wish I could turn a phrase like Savage.

In New York, the court ruled in effect that irresponsible heterosexuals often have children by accident — we gay couples, in contrast, cannot get drunk and adopt in one night — so the state can reserve marriage rights for heterosexuals in order to coerce them into taking care of their offspring. Without the promise of gift registries and rehearsal dinners, it seems, many more newborns in New York would be found in trash cans.

My favourite but, however, is:

"Keep breeding, heterosexuals," the Washington State Supreme Court in effect shouted, "To bed! To bed! To bed!"