Jonathan Higbee's picture  What's Your Instinct: Could Same-Sex
Marriages Become The Model For Heterosexual Unions?  If you take
out a few of the cringe-worthy moments in a new report from ABC
News that equates same-sex marriages with "who's going to kill
the mouse?" moments (plenty of straight couples have that same
argument), there are a few silver linings that foresee a time
when gay and lesbian couples provide archetypal examples of
marriage to opposite-sex unions.   From ABC News:  Sociologists
are eager to look at the outcome of same-sex marriages over the
long haul and what happens to household dynamics when gender is
no longer a part of the equation.  The National Institutes of
Health has given $1 million to researchers at San Diego State
University to study 1,000 gay and straight couples and their
siblings who have been followed over a decade, since 2000 when
same-sex civil unions were legalized in Vermont.  "The same-sex
couples who got civil unions in Vermont in 2000 will always be
the longest lega