Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lead Republican John McCain among unmarried voters, a U.S. poll indicates.

McCain, however, beats both Clinton and Obama among married voters, the Gallup Poll Daily tracking found.
 

Excerpt from column by Froma Harrop:

"It's easy to understand why gay people would want to get in on the marriage gravy train. There's just no logic for there being one. A stable marriage is the ideal institution for raising children, but we already have tax benefits focused on parents. Given the growing percentage of unmarried adult Americans, the whole obsession with same-sex marriage has become rather dated.

Keep marriage as a romantic and religious ideal for those who choose to partake. Public policy, on the other hand, should be marriage-neutral.

This is the marriage issue that the leading candidates should be addressing. You just know that they won't touch it."

A new Gallup Poll reveals that the American public has become more tolerant of divorce, unmarried sex, and gay relationships over the past seven years.

"The absence of ... a legally binding agreement between the applicants renders their relationship of cohabitation, despite its long duration, fundamentally different to that of a married or civil partnership couple," said the written judgment.

The sisters expressed their disappointment at the decision yesterday. "We are still struggling to understand why two single sisters in their old age, whose only crime was to choose to stay single and look after their parents and two aunts to the end, should find themselves in such a position in the UK in the 21st century," they said in a statement.

"We are, of course, bitterly disappointed. This is a day we hoped, as British citizens, we would never see."