With President Obama coming out in support of gay marriage last week, this article resonated with me in the sense that I do believe gay marriage is a generational issue and will be a non-issue in twenty years when a new wave of young voters will simply not entertain letting government regulate personal matters. Government needs to get out of the business of marrying people period (Shout out to the Ron Paul movement) Maybe, just maybe, in Election of 2032, gay marriage will become a political obsolete nonissue because America, once again, will stand on the side of personal liberty and human rights for all people.
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Today President Obama came out and affirmed his position in backing gay marriage, which earned much accolade throughout my Facebook wall from my peers. While I appreciate the president for standing up in principle for the LBGT community, his action is so politically motivated that I find it frankly insulting that he is orchestrating this issue when it is politically convenient for him. It must be nice that he coincidentally has come to term with himself and finally “evolved” on this issue in an election year! It is so rich that a Democratic president is using this issue as a political wedge to gain electoral support – a political tactic used by many rightwing Republicans back in late 1980s and most of 1990s. In a year when some sensible Republicans are trying to have big conversations on issues that have significant ramifications to the future generations of this country i.e. jobs, economy, energy, tax reform,entitlement reform, etc., the Democrats are trying to use a wedge issue to divide the American public to gain slim margin at the poll. It is certainly not a coincidence that one out of six bundlers for the Obama campaign happens to be gay, or that 65% of young people (age 18-29) support the President. The President seems to be capitalizing on the speculative buzz that a Romney campaign advisor had recently quit due to his sexual orientation – or worse, that the Romney campaign may have fired Mr. Grenell because he happens to be gay and supports gay marriage, and the much publicized North Carolina amendment to ban gay marriage. I shall think highly of my president, as I shall like to believe that he is first and foremost an American, then a Democrat, but the president’s attempt to place politics ahead of his true beliefs shows a deficiency in his character. Why else did he leave the LGBT community hanging on this issue for the last four years?
I have personally struggled with this issue for years. I think marriage is a complex social institution that has many historical and religious roots, while at the same time, it makes sense on a civil liberty basis to allow gays to be married. It appears lacking to me for some to argue against the notion that gay couples can be loving and capable of raising a family, considering how many inept heterosexual parents who neglect and abuse children every day. I also do not buy the argument that a someone would choose to have a loving relationship and marry a person of the same sex, as a consequence to allowing gays to marry, if he or she is heterosexual by nature. I would love to explore this topic in college sometime if given the chance. However, I think for the President of the United States to pedal behind his VP in affirming gay marriage today, just a day after the North Carolina amendment banning gay marriage – while it makes political sense from a campaign perspective – is disgustingly insensitive. I do not doubt Mr. Obama’s true stance on gay marriage, but I find it offensive that he only offers “hope” when it is politically convenient for him to do so. I am even more perturbed by the wide scale fawning over this president – as evident from Facebook – who is demagoguing the American people for political advantage! We should call out politicians, Left and Right, who place campaigns and politics ahead of personal values.
Time Out 