Obama's Semantic Con Job On Gay Marriage
If you didn't already know: I am in favor of gay marriage or marriage equality, or whatever you want to term it. And I take that not only from a legal standpoint, which I used to hang my support on, but from a moral one as well. Not that these will change any minds, but there is biblically-sound reasoning for viewing loving, equal gay unions as something good: The Bible Is An Empty Closet and Scholarship On What The Bible Really Says About Homosexuality.
Having said that ... This is something President Obama's supporters need to ask themselves:
What if the president really disagrees with the concept of gay "marriage" for the same reason many others do? Maybe he will clarify that during his press conference this morning. But what if he really is for supporting gay rights in all the other ways he has -- he signed into law hate crimes legislation, ended "don't ask, don't tell," stopped defending the "defense of marriage" act in court, among many other things that have improved equality for gays and lesbians -- but wants the term "marriage" to remain the domain of the one-man-one-woman relationship? What then?
