{"id":2928,"date":"2012-05-10T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2012-05-10T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:52:10","slug":"obama-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Obama Evolved!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am willing to admit that I was wrong. People told me that President Obama was just waiting until his second term before he openly supports same-gender marriage and I laughed. I didn\u2019t think he would support it until after he was out of office when there wasn’t anything he could actually do about it. I was wrong and to President Obama, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

With that said, let\u2019s face facts. He wouldn\u2019t have done it at all if Vice President Joe Biden didn\u2019t come out with his statement on Sunday\u2019s Meet The Press<\/em>. Right afterward, David Axelrod issued a statement claiming that Biden wasn\u2019t really for gay marriage and that his position was the same as the President\u2019s position. But that didn\u2019t hold any water and everyone knew it. So the President felt he had to come out in support of gay marriage.<\/p>\n

I am really glad he did. I have been complaining about Obama\u2019s \u201cevolving\u201d position for a long time. But I am concerned with his couching this with, \u201cI personally believe\u201d and then falling back on the \u201cstates can do what they want\u201d approach. I would prefer that he would \u201cevolve\u201d toward a federal amendment on this issue. But if he is going to fall back on the states thing, he can at least promise that he will personally campaign on this issue state-by-state.<\/p>\n

The thing is that Republicans have been using gay marriage as a wedge issue for a long time. Now, the numbers favor gay marriage (60%). So maybe Obama should be out there using it as a wedge issue. Conservatives have gay family members too and this is an issue that many Republicans have realized or in the process of realizing that they are going to lose if they stand against the tide of history.<\/p>\n

Now that Obama has \u201cevolved\u201d on gay marriage, it is time to push him to evolve on greater support for the atheist community too. He can start by stopping with the \u201cGod bless America\u201d bit that almost all politicians use. We get it, he\u2019s a Christian. But he doesn\u2019t have to push it on us. So now is the time to put the pressure on him more on promoting gay marriage state-by-state across the nation and on atheist and secular issues too.<\/p>\n

Oh, I guess we need a lobbying organization for that. If only people weren’t calling to de-fund our lobbying organization…<\/p>\n

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