Even Obama and Biden are against gay marriage

[chicken]

Yep, I just heard it right from Biden. I am bewildered. Here I go feeling like a damn disenfranchised second-class citizen again. I think this might be why I liked Hillary Clinton, she was much more in favor of actual gay marriage, or at least that's what I gleaned from her online position statements a few months ago.

Palin's whole "I'm tolerent!" bullshit made me want to weep. I guess compared to some people on the right who actively want to kill us, she is, but holy cow, that's right up there with "some of my best friends are gay".

Comments

[itsabigrock.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was very frustrated about that too, but I do feel that what Biden was saying is that they do not support a federal amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Obama refers to us as his brothers and sisters. I have to believe that while they don't want a federal amendment, they do support individual states' rights to define marriage as they see fit.

I'm still hopeful.

That said, everytime I hear the word 'tolerate' I have to choke back the tears and the vomit. Nothing gets my ire on quicker than being 'tolerated'.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Yes, toleration implies the people doing the tolerating don't really like and can actually barely stand the tolerated, and therefore it sounds really condescending at best.