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Old 05-09-2012, 04:45 PM
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http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces...-marriage.html

Proves he is not a Christian, can't really have it both ways.
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Old 05-09-2012, 05:07 PM
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It's true...what 'they' say...a politician will say anything to get elected...
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Old 05-09-2012, 05:12 PM
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Old 05-09-2012, 05:28 PM
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http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces...-marriage.html

Proves he is not a Christian, can't really have it both ways.
I'm sure someone will say that in all seriousness on Faux within the next 24 hours.

It's about time. The "evolution" thing was taking longer than Australopithecus ---> Homo. Thank you, President Obama, for at least talking like you belong in the 21st century world. About time a US President said it publicly.

This is going to turn out to be a great election for this country: the Republicans are doubling down on Evangelical John Birch Tea Party Anti-Gay Anti-woman crazies (see Dick Lugar loss yesterday), and the Dems (shadows for what used to be moderate Republicans) are finally developing a vocal progressive wing.

We get to choose. Like France
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Old 05-09-2012, 05:41 PM
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one way to get economy and job discussions out of the media.


seriously tho, i like his stance on this issue far more than i do romneys. and it cracks me up when people bring theological points into it, when it's only the constitution that is supposed to matter. when the various religions start making the rules, than i will be moving out of country.
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Old 05-09-2012, 09:56 PM
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when the various religions start making the rules, than i will be moving out of country.
It's already started under cover of phrases like "family values," "state's rights," and "freedom of religion." I'm too old to move out of the country, so I'll stay and do what I can to fight.
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Old 05-09-2012, 10:33 PM
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Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast wrote a very moving column today. Andrew is gay, Republican, and voted for Obama 2008.

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Obama Lets Go Of Fear

I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is. What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to write, and, like many Dish readers, there are tears in my eyes.

So let me simply say: I think of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their president on their side. I think of Maurice Sendak, who just died, whose decades-long relationship was never given the respect it deserved. I think of the centuries and decades in which gay people found it impossible to believe that marriage and inclusion in their own families was possible for them, so crushed were they by the weight of social and religious pressure.

I think of all those in the plague years shut out of hospital rooms, thrown out of apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they loved another human being. I think of Frank Kameny. I think of the gay parents who now feel their president is behind their sacrifices and their love for their children.

The interview changes no laws; it has no tangible effect. But it reaffirms for me the integrity of this man we are immensely lucky to have in the White House. Obama's journey on this has been like that of many other Americans, when faced with the actual reality of gay lives and gay relationships. Yes, there was politics in a lot of it. But not all of it. I was in the room long before the 2008 primaries when Obama spoke to the mother of a gay son about marriage equality. He said he was for equality, but not marriage. Five years later, he sees - as we all see - that you cannot have one without the other. But even then, you knew he saw that woman's son as his equal as a citizen. It was a moment - way off the record at the time - that clinched my support for him.

Today Obama did more than make a logical step. He let go of fear. He is clearly prepared to let the political chips fall as they may. That's why we elected him. That's the change we believed in. The contrast with a candidate who wants to abolish all rights for gay couples by amending the federal constitution, and who has donated to organizations that seek to "cure" gays, who bowed to pressure from bigots who demanded the head of a spokesman on foreign policy solely because he was gay: how much starker can it get?

My view politically is that this will help Obama. He will be looking to the future generations as his opponent panders to the past. The clearer the choice this year the likelier his victory. And after the darkness of last night, this feels like a widening dawn.
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Old 05-09-2012, 10:36 PM
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Anything to take focus off of the economy...
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Andrew Sullivan is a misogynistic a**hole. I used to be a daily reader, but finally gave up because I was tired of throwing things at the screen when he wrote something especially offensive.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

So, Obama comes out in favor of marriage equality. How long before Romney tries to take credit for that, too?

In all seriousness, it's nice, but it's just his personal opinion. Compared to what his Administration has done in actual policy towards equality for gay men and women, it's not that much. Which is to say, his Administration has done quite a lot so far- check it out:

http://www.equalitygiving.org/Accomp...-LGBT-Equality

Compare this with Clinton signing DOMA in the 1990's. It does indeed get better.
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Old 05-10-2012, 12:03 PM
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Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast wrote a very moving column today. Andrew is gay, Republican, and voted for Obama 2008.
That is all well and good, while there is no bad press to go along with this statement, based on his "beliefs", he will now spend eternity in Hell. For one extra term...
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I'm sure someone will say that in all seriousness on Faux within the next 24 hours.

It's about time. The "evolution" thing was taking longer than Australopithecus ---> Homo. Thank you, President Obama, for at least talking like you belong in the 21st century world. About time a US President said it publicly.

This is going to turn out to be a great election for this country: the Republicans are doubling down on Evangelical John Birch Tea Party Anti-Gay Anti-woman crazies (see Dick Lugar loss yesterday), and the Dems (shadows for what used to be moderate Republicans) are finally developing a vocal progressive wing.

We get to choose. Like France
We should all be glad that President Obama has finally caught up to Dick Cheney's stance on this issue.
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We should all be glad that President Obama has finally caught up to Dick Cheney's stance on this issue.

Did Obama shoot someone in the face?

Also on Cheney, heard his insurance company was not going to cover his new heart...They said he was heartless before the surgery...
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Did Obama shoot someone in the face?
Also on Cheney, heard his insurance company was not going to cover his new heart...They said he was heartless before the surgery...
i think that's between him and his wife....

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i think that's between him and his wife....


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Did Obama shoot someone in the face?

Also on Cheney, heard his insurance company was not going to cover his new heart...They said he was heartless before the surgery...
What does an accidental shot have to do with Cheney's and Obama's position on this issue? The fact of the matter is that it took until now for Obama to adopt the same position that the "evil" Dick Cheney has previously adopted on this issue.
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What does an accidental shot have to do with Cheney's and Obama's position on this issue? The fact of the matter is that it took until now for Obama to adopt the same position that the "evil" Dick Cheney has previously adopted on this issue.
He does what he always does, waits until it too late ( had a real opportunity to actually look presidential by holding this opinion and expressing it prior to the NC decision) and winds up looking cowardly and half-hearted.


I'm surprised it took him this long to inject himself into the middle of it (RE: Beer Summit, another after the fact abject failure) but it is a complete non-issue - if he felt this way it would not have taken him 3 and a half years to recognize the overwhelming % of the gay/lesbian/transgendered population that supported him in the first place.

The painful truth is, (and this really gets the lefty's going because they see it with their own eyes, yet refuse to acknowledge it )that he is EXACTLY like his predecessor - a servant to no one but the elite bankers of the federal reserve - NOT gays, not women, not the American people. His actions prove his motives once again.
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What does an accidental shot have to do with Cheney's and Obama's position on this issue? The fact of the matter is that it took until now for Obama to adopt the same position that the "evil" Dick Cheney has previously adopted on this issue.


So do millions of others agree with him...why bring up Cheney....what do you think his position would be if his daughter wasn't a lesbian?...
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I laughed

Republicans have historically been in favor of gay marriage (or at least not against it). It's an "Evangelical loon" thing rather than a "Republican" thing. The Evangelical loons control a good portion of the party now.

Romney caving to the gay-haters running out his foreign policy advisor, without raising any defense at all, was so pathetic that even the head of the anti-gay bashers that did the deed turned around the next day and called Romney weak and a caver for folding to their demands. Ouch.
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Republicans have historically been in favor of gay marriage (or at least not against it). It's an "Evangelical loon" thing rather than a "Republican" thing. The Evangelical loons control a good portion of the party now.

Romney caving to the gay-haters running out his foreign policy advisor, without raising any defense at all, was so pathetic that even the head of the anti-gay bashers that did the deed turned around the next day and called Romney weak and a caver for folding to their demands. Ouch.
I don't disagree with you that it is a disgrace that in the year 2012 that Romney's foreign policy advisor resigned because he is gay. Romney should have taken a stance against it and was weak and wrong not to do so.

People need to get over this crap already and stay out of other people's private affairs. I am as much against the evangelical nuts who preach that marriage can only be between a man and a woman as anyone here regardless of political affiliation.

The scary thing about this is that 30 states have proposed referandums to define marriage as limited to between a man and a woman and every single one of them passed. It is dispicable IMO.
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