Making "La Cage aux Folles" look like "The Sound of Music"

My favorite line from today's Frank Rich column in the NY Times [behind subscription wall]:

In a class by itself is the president’s down-to-the-wire effort to brand his party as the defender of “traditional” marriage even as the same-sex scandals of conservative leaders on and off Capitol Hill make “La Cage aux Folles” look like “The Sound of Music.”