Monday morning roundup

If there's a constituency the Russian government doesn't know how to handle, it's writers. It's always been writers. Gay marriage's religious divide is there, but it's not between the religious and secular sides. Most powerful excerpt:

Preaching from a biblical passage in Acts, she said that just as early Christians debated whether to baptize gentiles, modern Christians are still drawing boundaries between in groups and out groups. “The only thing that has changed in the church since the first century is who is considered ‘us,’ and who is considered ‘them,’ ” she said. “The essential issue is the same: We aren’t sure ‘they’ belong with God at all. When I was young, a pastor said, whenever you draw a line between us and them, bear in mind that Jesus is on the other side of that line.”

The Daily Mail assigns blame to women for "male" childlessness. Charts that resonate.