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".

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[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

FWIW, when my sister in law went to a swanky fund raiser with Obama a few weeks ago, she had five minutes to talk directly with him. She said, essentially, "I have four daughters. One of them is a lesbian. I want to make sure that ALL of my daughters have the right to marry the people they love, not just the straight ones." He said, "It's a priority." Now, of course, politically they CAN'T say that they're all for gay marriage. That would be the end of a presidential campaign, period. Only SMART people support gay marriage, and we saw how the last election went re: smart people...so...

I do believe that Obama believes in marriage rights. I don't believe, politically, he can address it until the first year of his second term.

On the other hand, I wish there were an option where *I* could have gotten 'civil unioned' or whatever various places are calling it, instead of married. I don't think THAT is fair. I think straight people should start pushing for THAT.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

It also doesn't make sense or fairness that so many financial and legal rights and responsibilities are tied to marriage.

I did suspect that many on the left including Obama and Biden were secretly for gay marriage but couldn't say so in public. Thanks for that story!