Posted on 06/20/2011 11:54:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rumblings from his administration have some conservatives concerned that President Barack Obama may be planning to endorse same-sex marriage this week or next as a gesture honoring Gay Pride month.
The president has two big meetings with gay constituents coming up – a $1,250-a-plate "Gala with the Gay Community" in Manhattan this week and a Gay Pride reception at the White House on June 29.
Although he has already signed a proclamation this month, as Obama has done every year he has been in office, declaring June as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) month, many expect Obama to do something grand for the meetings.
An anonymous Democratic strategist close to the White House told The New York Times that preparation is underway in anticipation that Obama may possibly make a statement endorsing gay marriage. The move, if done, would be a complete reversal of his 2008 campaign statements that he opposed gay marriage.
The anonymous strategist told NYTimes some senior advisers "are looking at the tactics of how this might be done if the president chose to do it."
The suggestion that Obama might consider such a statement has drawn criticism from the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Albert Mohler.
"An open endorsement of same-sex marriage by an incumbent President of the United States would be a very significant and troubling development," Mohler wrote in a Monday blog post. "President Obama would not only repudiate his former position(s), he would push this nation toward the unraveling of civilization's most central institution – marriage."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a briefing that the president is not deferring from his 2008 statement. Obama had affirmed in 2008, “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.”
Despite the White House's denials, Mohler believes that the White House is well down the road of endorsing same-sex marriage.
Last year, the Obama administration successfully pushed for the legislative repeal of “don't ask, don't tell,” the 1993 ban on open homosexuality in the military. In February, the Department of Justice, with authorization from the White House, discontinued its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality.
Last Monday, retiring Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he would sign certification that the military is prepared to end the ban on openly gay military service if top officers agree this month before he leaves June 30.
"I think people are pretty satisfied with the way this process is going forward," he said, referring to the military's training of more than a million U.S. troops.
Obama himself has indicated that he is moving away from his 2008 statements.
He told AMERICABlog last year, "But I also think you’re right that attitudes evolve, including mine. And I think that it is an issue that I wrestle with and think about because I have a whole host of friends who are in gay partnerships. I have staff members who are in committed, monogamous relationships, who are raising children, who are wonderful parents.
"And I care about them deeply. And so while I’m not prepared to reverse myself here, sitting in the Roosevelt Room at 3:30 in the afternoon, I think it’s fair to say that it’s something that I think a lot about."
The NYTimes charged that even though Obama ran for the presidency as one opposed to same-sex marriage, "he may have been for same-sex marriage before he was against it."
The news source pointed to Obama’s response to a 1996 questionnaire from a gay newspaper as a candidate for the Illinois Senate. In the survey, he allegedly wrote, "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer denied on Friday that Obama filled out that questionnaire at the progressive Netroots Nation conference. White House officials have also said Obama likely made those comments in support of civil unions, which he does support.
However, the unnamed Democratic strategist said that President Obama "is clearly a president who is interested in making big historical changes . . . I think this issue has moved into that context for him."
Southern Baptist Leader Mohler says the president's aspirations shows how politics have been corrupted by sin.
“Such a move would represent nothing less than a moral revolution,” he asserted. “Furthermore, the one who makes such a move would be nothing less than a moral revolutionary.”
The Bummer just got through lauding dads on Father’s Day. These “gay marriages” are going to always be either missing a dad or a mom. Didn’t he know how left out he made the two-mommy crowd feel? /s
Oh, I so hope he does. The “black community” will have a meltdown.
Farrahkhan (sp) just called him a murderer yesterday. Popcorn anyone. :)
..and they'll still vote for him at a 95% rate...
The “Black Community” wouldn't care if Obama was Hannibal Lecter. To them he is Mr. Reparations, nothing more.
If Hitler, Stalin or Mao were Black, they would have voted for any one of them. Obama money, it's the new Coke.
Only a matter of time before they call him, “Oreo.”
They have to be enticed to vote. I foresee a lot of stay at home among the “community” next year.
Is it really a course change when he was lying about his original position?
Sadly, Calypso Louie is a complete unknown to the under 35 black crowd these days.
The Obama Riots will make the Rodney King Riots look like a Toddlers Birthday Party.
That's why I call him Baby Raila. Consider how his cousin got that PM job... after losing the 2007 election, despite Obama's on-the-ground community organizing in Kenya for the communist.
I have no respect for this idiot pastors who are shocked! shocked! that Obama might be a "moral revolutionary." 2008 was the time to get a clue. I'm so sick of people not being able to call this fraud what he is: A radical communist infiltrator.
If true, he will gain little, and lose a lot.
The Moose is out of town and the Mouse wants to play with his buddies.
Perhaps a widespread black boycott of the polls could be hoped?
You may be dead on in your assessment about his GAYNESS.
Here's it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2737397/posts?page=24#24
In this video Gay-bama's queer lover, Larry Sinclair, describes their homosexual relationship, their cocaine use
and their homosexual romps, all of which took place in Chicago when Obama was an Illinois State Senator.
VIDEO: Barack Obama - Larry Sinclair Press conference
In this book, Gay-bama's queer lover describes their homosexual relationship.
Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder?
Obama has much more to lose than win on this issue.
He carried the 2008 election by 95 electoral votes, but just 4 states that he carried could spell doom for him in the 2012 election over this one issue.
You have to remember that it is NOT a total of 95 electoral votes - but JUST over half that the GOP needs. Because if Obama goes DOWN by just over half, the GOP goes UP by the same amount.
Florida [27], North Carolina [15], Pennsylvania [21], and Virginia [13] are the states. ANY combination of 3 of the 4 lost by Obama in 2012 would mean a 47-48 electoral vote loss and a 47-48 electoral vote gain by the GOP. Add them together and they total up to 95 electoral votes.
These states have HEAVY fundamentalist religious beliefs. NC, PA, and VA are heavily Christian - whereas FL has a healthy Jewish population. Homosexuality is considered an abomination by these tenets ...
PLUS, you have to remember that Obama has problems OTHER than gay marriage in OTHER states that he carried in 2008 [the economy, the debt, etc.]. He may lose a few of those anyway as well.
The plain fact is that Obama CANNOT AFFORD to come out FOR gay marriage as he goes into the election. In order to appease a SMALL percentage of the electorate, he would risk LOSING a larger percentage [and likely the election] ...
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