Grover Norquist was the guest on the Col­bert Report last night. I am apalled by his bla­tant over­sim­pli­fi­ca­tions of obvi­ously com­plex issues—he claims that the fed­eral gov­ern­ment should pro­vide lit­tle more than safety and secu­rity (to which Col­bert teased that we could prob­a­bly do with­out the Inter­state High­way Sys­tem too).

But I can appre­ci­ate his theme of reduc­ing unnec­es­sary gov­ern­ment restric­tions on com­merce and pri­vate life when­ever pos­si­ble. So I won­der: why are the Repub­li­cans not the biggest cham­pi­ons of legal­iz­ing gay marriage?