With President Barack Obama’s Wednesday announcement in support of same-sex marriage, the country is on its way to becoming, as our Founding Fathers put it, a more perfect Union.
Obama’s declaration is historically significant and monumentally important. No president has ever come out in favor of marriage equality before Obama. Our country’s unequivocal defense of liberty not only should but must extend to all its citizens, regardless of their sexuality.
Some question the political nature and timing of the announcement, as it came on the heels of Vice President Joe Biden’s support for same-sex marriage and just six months before the presidential election. But Obama has continued to state that his views are “evolving.”
It takes a while for opinions to change. When Obama was growing up four decades ago, the American public’s views were very different. Homosexuals could not even serve openly in the military until the Obama administration led the law’s nullification last year. While we wish Obama did not wait so long to declare his support for same-sex marriage, we are ecstatic that he has finally come around.
What’s next? The president has said he believes gay marriage is a state issue. However, just eight states recognize or are on the path to recognize same-sex marriage. We hope Obama not only supports same-sex marriage as an unalienable right but also that his administration works with Congress to ensure that every American across the nation is given the opportunity to marry the person of his or her choice.
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Please remember that support for gay marriage is support for long term monogamous relationships. This is not an endorsement of the type of non-monogamous Grinder hookups that are not healthy for homosexuals. If you are living the kind of life that makes you need to take an HIV/STD test with any regularity, then you are doing something wrong. When gay men contract HIV at similar levels to IV drug users and much higher levels than straight men, they are living in a way that the president doesn’t support.
It is not marriage; it is a lifestyle choice.
Suppose I (a man) go to live with my best friend (a man), who I love, and we were to share every thing in life, but we are not homosexual, would we have the same “legal benefits” as two homosexual men who get married and live together? Would I now be the one being discriminated against in the same legal matters? Do I have to marry my best friend to get the same legal benefits?
Look idiots, Obama has decided that this is the most likely was to get more votes than to not support it, what part of this country is going to hell in an hand basket is it that you don’t understand. Vote
NObama is there is to be a chance at this countrys return to a decent economy. If you idiots vote him in again, ti will result in the certain demise of the us of a.
To Mr. Ahole, not only was that a non response to my question, it makes no sense since the majority of the Country does not support gay marriage in a State by State vote. Since you are the only non idiot posting here (according to you), you should know that. But the masses of voters are going to vote for who they think will put more food on the table, which is kind of funny as we live in a Country with the highest obesity. The voters will vote for the guy who brings more jobs, and they don’t care where the money comes from. People always vote for change when things are not going well, but the people really do not want to change. As a Country, we eat, drink, and smoke to much and then complain there is not enough health care. We have millions of young people who drop out of school and make babies without being married and they expect the Government to find them a job when they could not get a job when things were going well under the Clinton surplus. Many of our jobs went to the orient, then we the people (democrats and republicans) buy their cheep products, and they take the profits and loan it back to us for more profits. We the people (democrats and republicans) drive around in big cars for recreation so we can buy more gas from Countries who support Islamists all around the globe. We make it hard for returning war veterans to get their full benefits, but we have a hundred thousand dollars a year to support every criminal in the system to include free medical, dental, and legal counsel. Don’t you see that the outcome is certain. The biggest offenders of the US economy, the biggest polluters, the biggest profiteers have their lobbyists in Washington greasing both democrats and republicans. Do you really believe that Obama and gay marriage is holding back this Country, and as you put it- “will result in the certain demise of the USA”?
You know what, we need a complete revamping of this country, to emulate the decipline of the Chinese. You are right that we have a huge number of people that think they are entitled to a free ride, a wise government would put a stop to the free food without having to do anything in exchange for it. I personally am the most horrified when I see people buy “meat” with food stamps. Not only was this poor animal abused before slaughter, it then has a bar code slapped across it and is given away to people many of whom have no regard for the inherent beauty and dignity of ALL creatures, except for most people, are we living in hell or what, how could this possibly be.
Only trauma changes adults. Your “complete revamping” only comes with a big war. Seventy years ago, when the labor class got to big to feed itself in Europe, they picked up the gun and followed a crazy man, resulting in 50 million Europeans killing each other (basically white Christian people). A devastated Europe began to realize its family values and its cultural heritage, and began to rebuild healthy vibrant economies. Devastated Jews went to their cultural homeland and built a vibrant economy with brain power and hard work. Totally devastated post war Germany and Japan rose to become the number one economies in the world, as they already had the cultural dynamic of discipline, punctuality and reliability. It took the trauma of millions of people dying to achieve this effect. Now we have a couple of spoiled generations that do not respect history, and tens of millions of people who have come to the Western World without the respect for the culture. We can all see that this is not going to end well, we just do not know when. As for the Chinese, they are dependent on how well the rest of the world is doing, as they still having trouble to feed hundreds of millions of people, even with thirty straight years of growth. A whole generation of Chinese who have not witnessed a recession. That could be mind blowing for the Chinese to become part of a world wide recession. They are not immune.
Animals need to be treated for the beautiful creatures that they are, millions of them are slaughtered and tortured daily, how about the conditions under which egg laying hens are kept, without enough room to open their wings. This is an evil that is tolerated by the masses that are either ignorant of the situation or indifferent to it. If you were aware of how intelligent and dignified chickens are you wouldn’t eat them, you would celebrate them. What you say makes alot of sense but don’t discount the importance of animals and their plight. We live in eutopia compared to them. Think about it.
Hey Mr., do you feel we are drifting way off the subject? Look! I love animals and people, but there is no God out there protecting animals, man, and nature. You suffer for the animals because you have a consciousness and the ability to ask the question why. But we are just animals, and we evolved like other animals to survive at all costs. If we did not kill the animals, we would displace them by growing crops all over the world, with graveyards, with industry, with expanding cities. We will have our day and they we will be displaced by a massive ice age, global warming, a disease with no cure, a modern weapon of mass destruction, etc. Don’t be so stressed. You did not create this mess. Love, live, and do what you can in your own tiny world, that is the best any of us can do.
I am sure a great day of reckoning will be forthcoming however, I think we will all pay individually eventually for our insensitivity and evil against animals and the environment, otherwise, nothing makes sense. The truth is that mankind is the only animal that should not be on this planet we are such an arrogant, destructive species. Other animals only take what they need to survive. We are the an abberation. I agree with alot of your comments. Try not eating animals and getting to know them, you will be enriched by that and will spare yourself the reckoning that all those that inflict cruelty upon other cretures will eventually face.
We are not living in hell! During the age of warriors, those with the most swords came and took what they wanted, to include women and children. Men have always fought over land and resources since we migrated out of Africa. This is the best time to be living, especially in the Western world. A hundred years ago the richest man on the planet could not save his sick children as we had no antibiotics. Today the poorest person could go to a free clinic and get a shot. This is the best time for education, communications, music, abundance of food, clean drinking water, and pharmaceuticals. You could go on and on about technology that saves lives and limits suffering. It is a cycle that we do not want to see end, but all cycles come to an end. Twenty thousand years ago, New York City was under five hundred feet of ice, but thanks to global warning…..
Hey Wtflahole, every animal in it’s natural environment is either going be chased down and eaten alive, starve, freeze, or kill each other during mating season. During migrations, the lame and the sick will suffer, and then will be eat alive by packs of predators. Nature is rarely kind in this area. Only man can appreciate them as beautiful creatures, cause animals and half of humans do not have the concept of what is beautiful. Enjoy your gift of love and appreciation that others will never know, especially if their families are without food.
Wtflahole, it took ions of time and many survivors of famines to make man what he has evolved into.