[homemom]

Obama said recognition of gay unions in the United States should cross state lines and that equal rights should be recognized universally...

Unless, of course, those "equal rights" are to apply to babies who have not been born yet...

[Lexinom]

You seek a qualification and it is this: The so-called “equal rights” extend to those who can vote. We fail the von Goethe test most spectacularly, our character being judged by how we treat those who can do nothing for us. It’s a regrettable - and for many of us, desperate - state of affairs.