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Last Sunday the church I attend did blessings of same-sex couples who had been married in the recent marriage madness at City Hall, and we invited media. This morning there's a big story in the New York Times.

The story ends with a conversation-stopping quote from a psychologist:

"This thing started out as one hulking animal plodding through the sanctuary, and has now turned into something that approximates the charge of a herd of buffalo," Dr. Lindner said. "There is no end in sight and the dust is so thick you can't even see the count."

Whoa. Let's see, I think the original metaphor is a combination of "the 900-lb. gorilla in the room" and "a bull in a china shop." Then there's a stampede, and by the time the sentence ends, suddenly we're at a baseball game and a gust of wind has whipped up such that you can't see the umpire holding up fingers to signal the ball-and-strike count.

I stand in awe.