It makes sense to me though that the first president to ever come out in support for marriage equality would be a president of mixed race heritage. Is a good good thing that he did.
You know facebook is all aflutter, people are so *proud* of Obama and I just don't get why!
He's not making a policy statment, not proposing legislation, not even supporting the idea that equal marriage rights are a federal issue. He's making a personal statement of the evolution of his thoughts & feelings. An evolution I find to be (too) long in coming. I just don't get it. Mind you, I'm happy that the VP blundered his way into making this statement by Obama necessary but I don't think he deserves high praise.
Getting change on this issue in Washington is like watching a cliff face erode. I'll take every tiny little incremental step I can get.
And I doubt this reflects the accurate evolution of his thoughts on the matter. There are hard limits on what he can get away with saying, and still have any hope of re-election. This is progress, not because he had a feeling, but because he's the first president EVER to express such a feeling openly, on television. Which IS progress, albeit painfully slow.
What I wouldn't give for a candidate who would just flat-out *ignore* the notion of bi-partisan support and run as a strongly sex-positive, socially liberal, fiscally moderate atheist who didn't give a CRAP what any religion thought of him or her, and just did things that made sense and told the morality police and the "family values" windbags to twist in the wind. :-/
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He's not making a policy statment, not proposing legislation, not even supporting the idea that equal marriage rights are a federal issue. He's making a personal statement of the evolution of his thoughts & feelings. An evolution I find to be (too) long in coming. I just don't get it. Mind you, I'm happy that the VP blundered his way into making this statement by Obama necessary but I don't think he deserves high praise.
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And I doubt this reflects the accurate evolution of his thoughts on the matter. There are hard limits on what he can get away with saying, and still have any hope of re-election. This is progress, not because he had a feeling, but because he's the first president EVER to express such a feeling openly, on television. Which IS progress, albeit painfully slow.
What I wouldn't give for a candidate who would just flat-out *ignore* the notion of bi-partisan support and run as a strongly sex-positive, socially liberal, fiscally moderate atheist who didn't give a CRAP what any religion thought of him or her, and just did things that made sense and told the morality police and the "family values" windbags to twist in the wind. :-/
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