By Isaac Butler
It's about damn time for Obama's position on gay marriage to "evolve" on over to the pro side. With Maryland being the latest state to allow gay marraiges, he wouldn't even be going that far out on a limb. Most people either are for them or don't really give a shit about this issue and honestly the more he gets the Right to overreact about social issues, the more irrelevant and unserious they look.
It makes him look like he's lagging badly on a civil-rights issue. And really, what would be the loss if he came out in support of gay marriage? Is it really the defining issue for anyone who's on the fence about voting for him? He'd lose the votes of people who weren't going to vote for him anyway. And he'd gain so much more. He'd be a leader on the defining civil-rights issue today. He'd be a mensch.
Posted by: Esther | February 24, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Well there is more to it -- there are any number of close races where an energized right wing base could do damage.
I'm betting he "evolves" some time after November. It sucks but it's politics.
Posted by: Isaiah Tanenbaum | March 01, 2012 at 08:23 PM