I disagree. That was the exact opposite of what happened in the campaign in Canada, where the Conservatives said they would hold a vote to repeal the ban but soft-pedalled the issue and were very defensive in their comments instead of attacking their opponents for trying to destroy traditional marriage. The reason they soft pedalled was because of a small, but influential homosexual group within the Party which they did not want to offend. The end result was that the Conservatives tossed away a wedge issue that could have pried many socially conservative voters away from their traditional home in the LIberal Party members. Ronald Reagan showed how to win the Irish-Polish-Italian Catholics who traditionally vote for the Dems in states such as Pennsylvannia, to the extent that they became known as “Reagan Democrats”. You won’t win converts by soft pedalling this issue and letting the Dems have a free run in the rhetorical wars. If the Republicans want this issue to be a winner, they have to make traditional marriage a key part of their platform.
I am sure the SuperPacs will be hitting this issue hard as will other interest groups. We have an economy in the tank, high unemployment, a $15.7 trillion debt and $1 trillion plus budget deficits for the last three years (soon to be four), Obamacare, a downgrade of credit rating, a backdoor amnesty, an out of control EPA that is shutting down our economy thru regulations, and a host of other issues.
Obama wants us to focus on gay marriage and what ever else he tosses out there to distract us. He wants to set the agenda about what this election is going to be about. We must make sure it is about Obama and his policies. Of course, gay marriage will be part of this campaign. We just disagree as to how central it will be. We will just agree to disagree.