Is this supposed to worry us?

While many conservative organizations immediately decried a federal judge's decision last week to invalidate the federal ban on recognizing gay marriages, tea party groups have been conspicuously silent on the issue.

The idea is to dump as many of the components of the current system as possible. Anything that divides us or distracts from that task ought to be ignored for now. The country is in peril. It's not the time to argue about gay marriage, which is not covered by the Constitution in the first place either as a guaranteed right or a prohibited practice. It belongs at the state level.