Maybe we need to accept a new, evolving view on marriage, but for now I'm still rooting for "til death do us part".
President Barack Obama defined his "evolving" view on gay marriage Wednesday with his clearest support for the issue to date, telling ABC's Robin Roberts that same-sex marriage should be legal.
It's fair to say, then, that McCain did evolve in his views on when and how to use American force over the course of the decade, but it's misleading to separate his evolution from the larger transformation that was happening all around him.
And while traditional goal setting served him well early in his career he has since evolved his views on goal.
And though Kennedy's votes with the conservative bloc include one, in 1989, upholding the death penalty for juveniles, he has changed his mind in response to evolving views on a controversial subject: in 2005, Kennedy wrote the opinion that overturned the death penalty for juveniles, arguing that a reversal was called for because "standards of decency" had changed.
Mitt Romney, as is well known, has evolved a great deal in his views on abortion.
Another series of displays compactly reviews Lincoln's steadily evolving views on slavery (and includes a video about his encounters with Frederick Douglass).
He had a set of core principles, but he had a certain suppleness on practical politics, with evolving views on abortion, federal deficits, taxes, immigration and the size of government.
We can hope that President Obama, for his part, will not wait for such a moment to tell us where his own "evolving" views on the issue have led him.
To a large extent that stance reflects Mayne's own evolving views on the relationship between architecture and its public.
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