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Today's support for such compromises represents a "placeholder in people's thinking," Wolfson says, as they straddle the fence between their belief in equality and their entrenched view of heterosexual marriage.

Chances are, a few members from both camps see both sides of the issue and, therefore, straddle the fence.

That answers the question of why the Democrats have no alternative plans, why they'll talk cut and run, but won't do it, and why they straddle the fence on support the troops but not the war.

Guidance must straddle the fence between fostering individual development and economic development.

A simpler explanation for Lippard's appearing to straddle the fence on the war effort would be his desire to sell books to readers on both sides of the debate.