Lots of reasons to love NJ Governor Chris Christie.

This whole thing with him punting on gay marriage ("let the people decide, not the leaders!") seems just a bit too much like Pontius Pilate for my tastes. And then, for him to have said that civil rights was always driven by the people, and not the legislatures? Is he kidding?

But I like this. Let the gays feel like they have to live in New York in order to receive social justice. It's kind of like when the majors opened themselves up to African Americans. Give me your tired, your poor: New York will thrive, and New Jersey will languish. Perhaps not at such extremes, but New York will have the edge again. And maybe then the Giants and Jets will come back.

(And of course, in addition to my selfishness, it's just plain wrong for Christie to not get on this train. Gay marriage is right.)

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