No gay marriage please, we're British

The Economist discusses gay marriage and Mitt Romney's presidential bid in an article charmingly titled The Slippery Slope to Bestiality (you'll have to pay to read the whole thing, but it starts by comparing Romney to a survivor of the 1919 Molasses Flood).

Geoff, a long-time Economist reader, is disgusted at what he considers trivialization of a generally civil (Romney's recent pandering excepted) debate on the issue here:

... I've subscribed to the Economist for most of the last 30 years, and I can remember when they were a respectable, fairly non-partisan journal of economic record. They used to be the scourge of dissembling politicians of all stripes, and no-one would have described them as "right-wing". But as I noted early last year, those days are gone: the Economist may still have the best writers, but it has lost its soul. ...