The president was pushed into declaring his support by his Vice President and his Secretary of Education, and no serious person disputes this. The only surprise is that his timing was so nakedly political and reflexive. "President Obama is a thorough-going man of the left obsessed with power and thus in re-election, so his decision Wednesday to declare for same sex marriage is hardly a surprise. What possible governmental interest is there in encouraging long-term commitments with a sexual element, just as such?" To break it altogether would make the institution of marriage unintelligible. "We have already gone too far, in both law and culture, in weakening the link between marriage and procreation. The only good reason to have marriage laws in the first place - to have the state recognize a class of relationships called "marriage" out of all the possible strong bonds that adults can form - is to link erotic desire to the upbringing of the children it can produce. He does not truly want states to be able to continue to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Obama has long favored the repeal of the act. One of the purposes of the federal Defense of Marriage Act was to block this scenario: A same-sex couple that resides in a state that does not recognize same-sex unions as marriages goes to a state that does so recognize them, gets married there, returns home, sues in federal court to make the home state recognize the "marriage," and prevails.
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"His claim that he believes that states should decide marriage policy is also impossible to credit. And his dishonesty is not merely a matter of pretending that he has truly changed his mind about marriage, rather than about the politics of marriage. But he is still being neither honest nor consistent. "President Obama is getting credit, even from some critics, for finally being honest and consistent in his position on same-sex marriage now that he has announced his support for it. I think of the gay parents who now feel their president is behind their sacrifices and their love for their children." 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 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 Maurice Sendak, who just died, whose decades-long relationship was never given the respect it deserved. "So let me simply say: I think of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their president on their side.
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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.
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"I do not know how orchestrated this was and I do not know how calculated it is.