Obama and the Abolition of Marriage

Human Events ^ | 10/30/09 | Gary Bauer

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“Do not doubt the direction we are headed and the destination we will reach.”

With those words to gay activists at the annual Human Rights Campaign (HRC) fundraiser this month, President Obama again signaled -- with the wink-and-a-nod style with which he is so adept -- his support for same-sex marriage.

Few people believe the president when he insists he opposes gay nuptials. But the more significant issue is not whether the Obama administration’s “destination” on marriage is same-sex marriage. It clearly is. The key issue is whether, based on who the president surrounds himself with, the administration will put us on the slippery slope toward the end of government recognition of marriage altogether.

Consider Chai Feldblum, Obama’s commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She is an avowed supporter of polygamy. In 2006, she signed a manifest titled “Beyond Marriage,” which advocated “legal recognition for a wide range of relationships, households and families—regardless of kinship or conjugal status,” including “households in which there is more than one conjugal partner.”

Then there is Cass Sunstein, whom Obama tapped to be administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein proposes to abolish traditional marriage as a state-sponsored institution. In his 2008 book Nudge, he says marriage discriminates against single people, bringing them “serious” disadvantages. Sunstein writes:

“Official marriage licenses also have the unfortunate consequence of dividing the world into the status of those who are married and those who are single in a way that produces serious economic and material disadvantages. …Why not leave people’s relationships to their own choices, subject to the judgments of private organizations, religious or otherwise?”

[Saundra Duffy]

They have a friend in the White House now - although I seem to remember Obama the candidate being against gay marriage.

[Pecos]

You’re not suggesting that the Candidate and the President might have been perceived to have expressed more than one view on a given topic, are you? Shame! You must be racist!

[HighlyOpinionated]

According to the November 2 issue of National Examiner, 0bama was not interested in marriage, but MeeShell finally got him to marry her.

The Pro-[Unhappy]Gay agenda [which, looking at his Czars and the people surrounding him in the White House would indicate his support] is no surprise.