After I wrote this column a while back, a blogger whose site
has since passed into the ether charged me with advancing a new
argument against same-sex marriage: "It's just too hard." Well,
actually no. It wasn't a polemical piece; I was just pointing out
some of the bureacratic hurdles and jockeying. But in California,
the subject of my column today, some clerks actually
do seem to think it's too hard. Others are taking
advantage of loopholes to avoid implementing a decision they oppose
and which may be overturned in the fall.