Maybe we should just let California be the Gay State. That's the latest thinking of some prominent red-state evangelicals, who fear that appealing California's recent same-sex marriage ruling to the Supreme Court could backfire, legalizing gay matrimony from sea to shining sea.

Last week, the case for signing over California to the Prince of Darkness was made on American Family Radio by David Barton, a Christian activist who served as vice-chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1998 to 2006. "Right now, the damage is limited to California only," Barton noted. But he feared that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote in an appeal, "will go for California, which means that all 31 states [that have banned gay marriage] will go down in flames."