28 October 2010

Monogamous Breeders Allowed (maybe, unless we change our minds later. . . conveniently, when it serves us. . .

President Obama has dropped a hint that maybe, someday, just maybe, he will support gay marriage. He dropped this hint six days before before the First Tuesday in November. Wow, the Dems must be in the toilet--they're actually trolling for the gay vote.

Yes, the Big O has hinted that Gay Marriage might be acceptable--under certain conditions: you must be a monogamous breeder with a middle-class professional job:

“On the question of marriage, President Obama began by clarifying that he wasn’t going to “make big news” at that particular moment. But his answer gave the first indication that he might be rethinking what has so far been his unremitting support for civil unions ever since adopting that stance during his 2006 U.S. Senate bid.

“I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage,” he said. “But I also think you’re right that attitudes evolve, including mine. And I think that it is an issue that I wrestle with and think about because I have a whole host of friends who are in gay partnerships. I have staff members who are in committed, monogamous relationships, who are raising children, who are wonderful parents. And I care about them deeply. And so while I’m not prepared to reverse myself here, sitting in the Roosevelt Room at 3:30 in the afternoon, I think it’s fair to say that it’s something that I think a lot about. That’s probably the best you’ll do out of me today.”

So sorry, fags, no change in actual policy or status for queers from the Man with a Message.

1 comments:

MJB said...

This is an issue that I wrestle with and think about because I have a whole host of friends who are in straigh partnerships. I have friends and co-workers who are in committed, monogamous relationships, who are raising children, who are wonderful parents. And I care about them deeply. But I still don't think they deserve more rights than those, like myself, in same-sex partnerships.