Democrats pressure Obama to endorse gay marriage

Democrats pressure Obama to endorse gay marriage

March 12, 2012 The Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON – More Americans are embracing gay marriage, adding to calls from Democrats for President Barack Obama -- who has said he is not sure where he stands -- to publicly express his support before the November elections.

Obama opposes gay marriage, but for nearly the last 18 months has said his views are "evolving." Now he is under pressure to make support for gay marriage part of his party's election platform when he formally accepts the Democratic nomination in September.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democratic National Convention, said last week that a gay-marriage plank should be part of the platform, echoing recent comments from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Gay-rights activists say they have been making the case to the White House that polls show Obama has little to lose politically if he endorses gay marriage.

Forty-nine percent of Americans now say they approve of gay marriage, up from 40 percent shortly after Obama took office in 2009.

He does this and he loses a good part of the black and Hispanic vote.

Gays can already marry. What's the big deal? IT'S ALREADY LEGAL EVERYWHERE.

If the Republicans had any sense, they'd sit this out and watch the president dig his own hole.

Don't bail him out by saying something stupid.

If the republicans had any sense, they'd get on the right side of history with this issue. Social issues is a terrible place to take an ideological stand on, they have a tendency to come back to bite you.

(03-12-2012 12:54 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote:  If the republicans had any sense, they'd get on the right side of history with this issue. Social issues is a terrible place to take an ideological stand on, they have a tendency to come back to bite you.

There isn't an issue. GAY MARRIAGE IS ALREADY LEGAL IN ALL 50 STATES. If two gay men/women approach a police officer and tell him/her that they are married will they be arrested and taken to jail? No...ergo...its legal.

(03-12-2012 12:54 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote:  If the republicans had any sense, they'd get on the right side of history with this issue. Social issues is a terrible place to take an ideological stand on, they have a tendency to come back to bite you.

LOL yea better to make an Ideological stand on tariff law....

Those pesky abolitionist taking a stnad on a social issue... pfffft...

(03-12-2012 01:02 PM)ImMoreAwesomeThanYou Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 12:54 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote:  If the republicans had any sense, they'd get on the right side of history with this issue. Social issues is a terrible place to take an ideological stand on, they have a tendency to come back to bite you.

There isn't an issue. GAY MARRIAGE IS ALREADY LEGAL IN ALL 50 STATES. If two gay men/women approach a police officer and tell him/her that they are married will they be arrested and taken to jail? No...ergo...its legal.

You know, you have said a lot of stupid things on here but this has to be right at the top of the most stupid things you have said.

(03-12-2012 02:01 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 01:02 PM)ImMoreAwesomeThanYou Wrote:  

(03-12-2012 12:54 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote:  If the republicans had any sense, they'd get on the right side of history with this issue. Social issues is a terrible place to take an ideological stand on, they have a tendency to come back to bite you.

There isn't an issue. GAY MARRIAGE IS ALREADY LEGAL IN ALL 50 STATES. If two gay men/women approach a police officer and tell him/her that they are married will they be arrested and taken to jail? No...ergo...its legal.

You know, you have said a lot of stupid things on here but this has to be right at the top of the most stupid things you have said.

Rob, just curious, how many jails are packed with people for being married while gay?

I thought he had already made it clear that he believes marriage is between a man and a woman.

(03-12-2012 06:00 PM)RaiderATO Wrote:  I thought he had already made it clear that he believes marriage is between a man and a woman.

Maybe he wants to raise it up a notch Marriage is between a gay man and a lesbian.