Gay marriage supporters express
disappointment with the president following his Thursday night
remarks
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President
Barack Obama spoke to LGBT supporters (and generous contributors)
at a gala fundraising event in New York City Thursday night. Because of
the event's location and timing -- smack in the middle of the New York
state legislature's debate on gay marriage -- the president was under
intense scrutiny; some same-sex marriage backers hoped (despite
warnings to the contrary) that the president might finally offer them
his unequivocal support.
They were almost universally disappointed. "Instead of discussing his
stand on the issue -- one on which his aides have said he’s 'evolving
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[Salon]
Obama continued - well, not in these exact words maybe ... more by his
own actions.
"Yes,
I've appointed Sharia law advocates like Justice
Kagan, and State
Department counsel Harold
Koh;
and yes, some might say shariah law demands the execution of y'all
homos. But, hey, that doesn't mean I'm gonna do it!. I'm
not. Maybe if Bill Ayers was preisdent; like that's gonna
happen lol.
And then there's this ...
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As for me, and for
personal reasons, I find myself more or less in this
camp. No, I don't recognize gay marriage as a sacrament, but an
accommodation made while the world falls apart. Your miles
may certainly differ, and so be it.
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As I grow older and older
And totter toward the tomb
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom
Dorothy
Sayers
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