If love now rules supreme, should incest and polygamy also be legalised?

The question is, says the Guardian in a report from San Francisco, whether God is actually gay, what with the gay marriage movement being on such a roll. The US Supreme Court majority ruling that marriage between same-sex couples is a constitutional right usefully coincided with a similar ruling on gay marriage in Mexico, which makes a nice change, I expect, from worrying about the narcotics-related homicide rate. In Australia, Malcolm Turnbull says it’s bound to happen there. Quite a coup, this, for the social media companies like Facebook, Apple and Google who’ve been campaigning for just this outcome.

Over here, David Cameron too must be quietly congratulating himself on the outcome, given that he declared two years ago that he wanted to export gay marriage around the world – hasn’t he done well! Meanwhile, the BBC, even-handed as ever about the issue, recruited Alvin Hall to occupy the comment slot on Radio 4, where he declared that overcoming the forces of reaction and prejudice against gay people when it comes to marriage rights was really just the same as fighting the kind of racial prejudice that led to a white supremacist gunning down black worshippers in a Charleston church.