2012-05-10, 03:00 AM
Huffington Post is dreaming, man.
But you do bring up a good point. Obama is musing that it "should" be legal. He's not describing the legal avenue by which he hopes to achieve that. Perhaps he means everyone should "evolve" with him, a gentle reminder that everyone should think as he does. Or maybe he means march on Kansas and force them to recognize gay marriage at gunpoint. We wont really know, because I doubt he'll go into further detail.
FrozNlite Wrote:They keep clamoring about plantain Cheney's recent support, but where was his criticism for not saying anything when he was the SITTING VICE PRESIDENT FOR 8 YEARS?! Sit down, shut up, and recognize what he's done for LGBT Americans in just one term, because it's more than any other President before.Because The most important issue to anyone who is gay is whether or not the government recognizes, subsidizes, and genuflects before gay marriage? Their statement sounds like they're pissed about the way he's doing it, which is pretty legitimate criticism. Honestly I don't understand how anyone didn't view the "evolving" nonsense as transparent to begin with. What was he going to do, announce his opposition to gay marriage and that he was not "evolving" anymore? The framing of the statement made it obvious that he's always been pro gay marriage, he just didn't think it was politically acceptable to say so. That's not leadership, that's pathetic pandering.
Hypocritical bullpomegranate.
FrozNlite Wrote:P.S. Eos you should really change the thread title - Obama's announcement today was in support of same-sex marriage, not gay rights. He still won't issue an Executive Order to prevent sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace, for example, and while it's because he wants to see ENDA passed (and thus could be argued, to some degree, to "support gay rights"), his administration today clearly stated this announcement doesn't change his stance on said EO.Probably because that would be hideously unconstitutional. And for an administration that blithely asserted Obamacare was unassailably constitutional, that's saying something.
But you do bring up a good point. Obama is musing that it "should" be legal. He's not describing the legal avenue by which he hopes to achieve that. Perhaps he means everyone should "evolve" with him, a gentle reminder that everyone should think as he does. Or maybe he means march on Kansas and force them to recognize gay marriage at gunpoint. We wont really know, because I doubt he'll go into further detail.