It's the conservative nightmare—that gays from all over the country will begin flocking to California when gay marriages begin there in a few weeks, only to return to their home states full of demands for rights and privileges. (It's such a nightmare that the attorneys general of nine states went lamely begging to the California Supreme Court to ask the court to delay marriages until the November popular vote on a Constitutional amendment against gay marriage.) But where Johnny Law and good Christians see horror, the New York Times sees a delicious, food-filled trend!

After all, who loves a good caterer more than the gays? And the New York Times' Dining Section would like to learn about it!

From: [Redacted]
Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2008
Subject: [NYT Newsroom] Reporting help - Kim Severson
To: [Newsroom]

PLEASE REPLY TO [REDACTED]

I'm working on a Dining story about the gay wedding gold rush and would like to interview gay and lesbian couples who are heading to California to be married and who are planning food-heavy receptions.

Let's hope these newlyweds don't serve the cake featured in last week's Dining section, a recipe which accompanied a strange meditation on cakes by Alex Witchel. It was disgusting! The cake itself was foamy and spongy—"Was this made with seltzer?" asked one of my dessert-sharers. No. Just TEN EGGS. The frosting was more than a bit lardy! But to be fair, the cake settled and improved with a day of refrigeration, though it retained something of a hard, stale-Twinkie consistency though. So just don't serve it at your wedding, homos!