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I never thought I’d begin an article like this, but here goes: Barack Obama is finally as liberal as Dick Cheney on gay marriage. As you’ve likely heard by now, President Obama announced his support for gay marriage earlier today. He’s not likely to push for legislation – the action is primarily in the courts [...]
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Brit Hume attacked the conventional wisdom on President Obama’s gay marriage announcement this week on Fox News Sunday. Hume said that the nakedly political rollout of Obama’s position on gay marriage was an attempt to merely excite the base and curry favor with a segment of the Democratic electorate, but by avoiding policy proscriptions that advance what has come to be seen as a civil rights issue, he looks to be avoiding the tough decisions. “Far from being a kind of post-partisan leader and all the rest of it, that he turns out to be just another politician doing what politicians do,” said ...
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A leaked memo from a top GOP pollster is telling Republicans that they had better support same-sex marriage or else face the consequences.
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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According to The Hill newspaper, many Democratic Senators in swing states are distancing themselves from Obama on gay marriage. But here is the problem. This issue is going to be decided by the Supreme Court. Does anyone doubt that Obama won't appoint another very liberal member of the court who would rule that there is "no rational basis" for ruling that marriage must be between a man and a woman?
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Brit Hume attacked the conventional wisdom on President Obama’s gay marriage announcement this week on Fox News Sunday. Hume said that the nakedly political rollout of Obama’s position on gay marriage was an attempt to merely excite the base and curry favor with a segment of the Democratic electorate, but by avoiding policy proscriptions that advance what has come to be seen as a civil rights issue, he looks to be avoiding the tough decisions. “Far from being a kind of post-partisan leader and all the rest of it, that he turns out to be just another politician doing what politicians do,” said ...
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A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds 51% of Americans say they approve of President Obama's stance that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry legally, but 60% say that his shift in position will have no bearing on how they vote in the November election.
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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I received this question in my email this week: Where are you? Your president who claims to be a Christian has come out in favor of gay marriage and your silence is deafening. Can you reconcile, using scripture, Christianity with same sex marriage? This is not an issue on which a Christian can ride the [...]
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Here is video of pro-Obama Democrat consultant Roland Martin on CNN saying President Obama’s embracing of Gay Marriage could very well depress enthusiasm among African-American voters this Fall. “Pay attention to those state referendums. Again, 0 for 32 in support of same-sex marriage. That means voters have already spoken.”
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Excerpted from BIG PEACE: The media flurry over Obama’s most recent position on gay marriage almost obscured a statement that could have significant implications for America’s security. As reported by Elliott Abrams at the Weekly Standard, Obama has returned to his 1996 position of supporting gay marriage after opposing it during his senatorial and presidential [...]
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I support gay marriage. However my first instinct is to think Cranmer (not a favourite blog, particularly BTL) has a point in feeling aggrieved at being pressured to respond to complaints (from the ASA) about the fact that he carried an advert on his blog on behalf of the Coalition for Marriage. The ad’s assertion [...]
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On the heels of his anti-gay marriage, anti-civil union double-down on Evolution Day, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was at least getting credit for supporting gay adoption. Thankfully, he cleared that noise up today in an interview with Charlotte, NC's WBTV-CLT (The Clt!). Confronted with his statement that gay adoption was "fine," Romney said he was simply acknowledging the fact that gay adoption is legal in almost every state.
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There has been all sorts of substantive news about gay marriage this week, it's easy to forget the small moments. I'm referring, of course, to the Nebraska woman who gave her remarkably unique reasoning for why gay people should not be allowed to get married. To say she went off the rails would be kind. More accurately, she went off the rails and down into a bottomless pit of confused bigotry. Thankfully, the guys over at Red Eye picked up this moment and decided to have some fun with it.
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As much as the Mitt Romney campaign wants to keep the election focused on jobs and the economy, this entire week was just dominated by gay marriage, one of the most divisive social issues in the country. From Joe Biden's endorsement of gay marriage to North Carolina's anti-civil unions measure to President Obama finally completing his evolution, Maddow noted that this has probably been the gayest week in Romney's entire life.
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What we at The Hotline learned this week:
-- President Obama's gay marriage reversal was an historic moment, but it was just that - a moment. Don't expect his embrace of a controversial social issue to actually move any votes this year. For one thing, the only segment of the Democratic base that disagrees on gay marriage - socially conservative African Americans - is the segment most likely to stick with Obama through thick and thin.
-- On the other hand, even if the country itself is evenly divided overall, it hardly seems far-fetched to conclude that some down-ballot Democrats in red state...
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One prominent North Carolina politician has been making her opposition to Amendment One, the proposal that passed this week to end recognition of all civil unions in the state beyond an already-existing ban on gay marriage, known. Governor Beverly Perdue remarked that the vote was disappointing coming from a "progressive forward thinking economically driven state" and added that by having a population that overwhelmingly supports such measures, "we look like Mississippi."
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A memo sent out by a Republican pollster has been making the rounds online for its conclusion that the party needs to embrace gay marriage as part of its platform because of recent trends showing increased support for this important social issue. Jan van Lohuizen, who worked as a pollster for George W. Bush in 2004, made the case that the GOP should be fighting for gay marriage as a conservative issue, by emphasizing that "freedom means freedom for everyone."
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Saw this earlier, glad Politico wrote it up for me. They have the full memo at the link. Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting … Continue reading →
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"Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his views on marriage could get any gayer." — Kentucky Senator and Ron Paul offspring Rand Paul referring to President Obama's recent affirmation of same sex marriage at an Iowa Faith & Freedom event last night. [Des Moines Register]
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Mitt Romney has a thing (one) he has stood firm on, and that is that he is against gay marriage. Sure, there was a time as governor of Massachusetts when he managed to be on both sides of the issue simultaneously, both directing his administration to comply with state judges’ “Goodridge” ruling allowing gays to [...]
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Former Bush pollster Jan van Lohuizen warns Republicans in a new memo they are increasingly on the wrong side of the gay marriage issue:
"The increase in support is taking place among all partisan groups. While more Democrats support gay marriage than Republicans, support levels among Republicans are increasing over time. The same is true of age: younger people support same sex marriage more often than older people, but the trends show that all age groups are rethinking their position."
Andrew Sullivan: "Read the bluntness of this. This is the GOP establishment talking to itself. And the...
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"Folks are saying what in the world is going on in North Carolina. We look like Mississippi."
-- North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue (D), quoted by the Raleigh News & Observer, after the state passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
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By Javier Manjarres During the annual ‘Champions of Equality’ gala put on by the non-partisan group Save Dade, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson was honored with the the first LBGT (Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender) “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” award for his past efforts to help repeal the controversial policy governing homosexual serving in the U.S Military [...]
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Gallup has produced the first national poll on the electoral impact of President Obama's big, gay announcement earlier this week, and the verdict is ... who cares?! A full 60 percent of the 1,1013 adults surveyed (yes, adults, not registered voters) said that Obama's support for gay marriage would make
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North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue is extremely unhappy with the 61 percent of her tragically dumb constituents who voted to constitutionally ban gay marriage and gay civil unions in the state. How unhappy? Full nuclear insult unhappy: “People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi.” OH [...]
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If you want a sense of how Obama’s cynical, money-driven gay marriage evolution ploy will play in key states Obama won in 2008, look not only at North Carolina’s vote Tuesday, but also at how fast Joe Donnelly is running away from Obama on the issue: U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly reiterated his position Thursday [...]
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Following President Barack Obama's voicing his support of same-sex marriage, the punditry immediately commenced. How political is the announcement? How will this affect his re-election prospects? Well, according to a new Gallup poll, the answer to latter is, not much. Majority of Americans polled said Obama's announcement won't sway their vote.
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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One cannot help but marvel at how the Obama administration's hand was forced on the gay marriage issue after a "gaffe" from Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press this week. Three days after the VP came out in favor of gay marriage, President Obama made his position known to the public. Bill Maher pointed out the interesting turn of events in his final New Rule of the night...
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One of the relatively "bright" spots to come out of this week's discussion of gay marriage for Mitt Romney is that he has at least been getting credit for being "fine" with gay couples adopting children. However, a new video out from progressive SuperPAC American Bridge casts some doubt on the depth of that conviction, featuring clips of Romney arguing against gay parenting, even as compared with one live and one dead straight parent.
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Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my buddy Mark Karlin: BuzzFlash proposes a hypothesis here, just speculation, but it runs counter to the corporate mainstream media conventional wisdom that Biden made a gaffe in supporting gay marriage (as … Continue reading →
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Some prominent Black pastors have become staunchly critical of President Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage, with some who formerly backed and celebrated his ascent…
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As if right-wing conspiracy theorists, convinced that The Washington Post's expose´ of Mitt Romney's prep school/involuntary barber school years is the result of some nefarious collusion, needed any encouragement, The Huffington Post's Mike Calderone reports that WaPo held the print version of their story in order to avoid placing it next to news of President Obama's recently completed "evolution" on gay marriage, and all that it would imply.
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Nate Silver says President Obama's decision to back gay marriage was probably driven by the fact that a majority of Democratic voter support gay marriage.
"The point is simply this: it's very unusual for someone who is the leader of his party -- and Mr. Obama is the leader of the Democratic Party as well as being the president -- to hold a position on a major issue in opposition to the clear majority of the voters within that party. In elections since World War II, instead, a party's presidential nominee has generally been someone who is close to the median of his party's voters."
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"Instead of insisting on equality as a U.S. Constitutional guarantee, the President has thrown this question back to the states. When the smoke clears, Gay Americans will realize the President’s words have gained them nothing today, and that millions of Americans in most states will continue to be denied true marriage equality . I guess the President is still more worried about losing Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia than he is in doing the right thing. What is the President saying — that he would eat a piece of cake at a gay wedding if the state the happy couple lives in a...
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A North Carolina lesbian was arrested for trespassing yesterday after she refused to leave the Winston-Salem city office where she and her partner had applied for a marriage license.The civil disobedience followed a day after President Barack Obama publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, and two days after North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman. The protest came amid attempts by a gay rights group, Campaign for Southern Equality, to broaden public support to allow same-sex marriage and more protests are plan...
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Click here to view this media After President Obama finally came out in support of gay marriage this week, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart explained this Thursday evening just how far we've come as a nation on the issue when this is the change in the narrative over at Fox News.
STEWART: And this is the true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation. In like five years, the prime talking point from Republicans about people who support gay marriage has gone from, "It will destroy society via turtle f**king," to, "Oh, of course you’re for it. You’ll say anything popular to get re-elected." And that ...
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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS After dancing around the issue for several years, U.S. President Barack Obama now says he supports gay marriage because it’s part of a natural progression of this country’s individual liberty. “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded, that for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and [...]
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A new poll finds that more Americans agree with President Barack Obama’s position on same sex marriage than disagree with him — although this still doesn’t mean Team Obama doesn’t face a new complication, since the controversy could change assumptions about electoral votes from certain states: More than half of Americans say they approve of [...]
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, in response to Obama's statement supporting same-sex marriage, said, "The people of this country, especially our children, deserve better."
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It is hard to believe, but according to this news roundup from around the Western Hemisphere from Spanish-language U.S.-based news aggregator La Informacion, just one Latin American head of state – Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner – has come out in support of gay marriage. According to the article, thanks largely to the influence [...]
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I have a confession to make: I’ve never understood the vehement opposition that the black church has to gay marriage. Don’t get me wrong, I…
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U.S. President Barack Obama raised $15 million at a Hollywood fundraiser hosted by actor/ activist George Clooney this week. That’s more money than presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney raises in a month. At the event Obama touted his recent support for gay marriage, calling it a “logical extension of what America is supposed to be.” [...]
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Army Captain Stephen Hill, who was booed at a GOP debate, discusses Obama's support of gay marriage, bullying, and Mitt Romney, the gay-bashing high school student.
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As someone who believes the government ought not be telling individuals who they can marry, and churches what sort of marriage ceremonies they can hold, I applaud President Obama for finally seeing the light on gay marriage whatever his motivations. But can we cut out some of the gushing about the supposedly “historic” nature of [...]
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Gallup has produced the first national poll on the electoral impact of President Obama's big, gay announcement earlier this week, and the verdict is ... who cares?! A full 60 percent of the 1,1013 adults surveyed (yes, adults, not registered voters) said that Obama's support for gay marriage would make
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Here is video of pro-Obama Democrat consultant Roland Martin on CNN saying President Obama’s embracing of Gay Marriage could very well depress enthusiasm among African-American voters this Fall. “Pay attention to those state referendums. Again, 0 for 32 in support of same-sex marriage. That means voters have already spoken.”
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Gallup Poll on President Obama and Gay Marriage As you may know, on Wednesday President Obama said for the first time he thinks same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. Do you approve or disapprove of his position on the issue? Approve 51% Disapprove 45% Among Democrats Approve 71% Disapprove 25% Among Independents Approve [...]
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Cuba's leading LGBT rights advocate, Mariela Castro, is praising President Obama for his evolution on same-sex marriage. The U.S. president delivered a message that was "humane, understanding, in which he even recognizes that he too has been changing his opinion in favor of marriage, the free union of same-sex couples," said Mariela Castro, who is Cuba's most prominent gay rights activist as head of the National Center for Sex Education, or Cenesex. "Hopefully his words will be taken seriously in the political and legislative decisions made in different states and in the whole world," Castro s...
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Following President Barack Obama's voicing his support of same-sex marriage, the punditry immediately commenced. How political is the announcement? How will this affect his re-election prospects? Well, according to a new Gallup poll, the answer to latter is, not much. Majority of Americans polled said Obama's announcement won't sway their vote.
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On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the timing of this week's big headline that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had held down a presumably gay fellow student and cut his hair. It it mere coincidence, he wondered, that this story has come out right on the heels of President Barack Obama's "big nothing" of an announcement that, while he personally supports gay marriage, he'll leave it to individual states to decide for themselves whether they will allow it?
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-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama revealed the extent of his narcissism, his outsized sense of self-regard, this week during his hasty explanation of his flip flop on the issue of gay marriage. In his ABC News interview Obama waxed poetic about those American troops that he thinks are fighting for him as opposed to fighting for [...]
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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Americans are too fat, experts say. The debate on gay marriage suggests we may be growing fat-headed as well. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics predict 42 percent of the population will be obese by 2030, with 11 percent severely obese, at health care costs of $550 billion. How do we set the [...]
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35 major organizations, from the AFL-CIO to HRC, the ACLU, and GLAAD, all voiced support for President Obama's support of same-sex marriage on Wednesday.
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So Mitt Romney fired accepted the forced resignation of an openly gay member of his foreign policy staff. Yes, it was almost two weeks ago, eons in the collective memory, but its recollection bleeds into "This Week in Gay Marriage", in which Obama is yanked out of the closet even as his protagonist pushes past him and forces his way in.Oh yeah, Mitt also bullied a gay kid when he was in high school.Reading that story almost makes strapping an Irish Setter to the roof of your car for a ride to Canada sound like a normal thing, doesn't it? At least the Log Cabins are unswayed. So he hasn't lost ...
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The Politico’s CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN and SEUNG MIN KIM have a breathless piece up featuring that headline, minus the “bummer.” They opine
President Barack Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage was viewed for so long as such a risky move that operatives in both parties expected it to drop like a bomb, handing Republicans a powerful wedge [...]
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-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama revealed the extent of his narcissism, his outsized sense of self-regard, this week during his hasty explanation of his flip flop on the issue of gay marriage. In his ABC News interview Obama waxed poetic about those American troops that he thinks are fighting for him as opposed to fighting for [...]
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"With Dicks in, all 6 WA congressional Democrats favor repeal of gay-marriage ban"
-- Seattle Times, with a reference to Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA).
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Here is video of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough questioning the timing of The Washington Post’s hitpiece on Mitt Romney accusing him of bullying a fellow-student in high school who later came out as gay – a hitpiece that just happened to come out the day after Barack Obama endorses Gay Marriage. “It seems to me that [...]
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On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the timing of this week's big headline that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had held down a presumably gay fellow student and cut his hair. It it mere coincidence, he wondered, that this story has come out right on the heels of President Barack Obama's "big nothing" of an announcement that, while he personally supports gay marriage, he'll leave it to individual states to decide for themselves whether they will allow it?
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