Comments on: Barack Obama, Yes. Gay Marriage, No.

National Review Online: Despite Electing The Most Liberal President Ever, Voters Don't Look All That Progressive

[pinkkitteh]

jumping the broom ,fyi- is a European pagan custom, not an African one. You people have no truck with actual history, do you? Marriage hasn''t "ALWAYS" been 1 male+ 1 female; it''s also been an interesting combination of 2 males 1 female, or 2 -50 females and 1 man....and you had to buy her first, but then you owned her for life. Glad they got rid of that rule, aren''t yall? During the Dark Ages, marriages were not only NOT sanctioned by the church, they were considered "earthly" contracts in direct opposition to God''s Will for Mankind. Marriages were perfomed on church STEPS, not IN the church, at all- they weren''t "holy" enough. It''s only our excuses for not doing what is RIGHT that change.

[noloyalisti]

That''s not saying much if he''s the most liberal ever. Obama is pretty much middle of the road, it''s just a big contrast between him and the right wing extremist wackos at the NRO and running the GOP.

Obama is still saber rattling about Iran and is in bed with AIPAC, the crazed fascist right wing Israeli lobby. He was talking about more drilling for oil and has not been a firm supporter of government single payer universal health care.

I guess when the government is owned and run by oil companies, arms manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies for so long, there is only so much one man can do.

[caldwellptr]

I guess we know what conservative / GOP ideology doesn''t stand for - Prop 8 takes away Freedom, adds government interference.

In a 1975 magazine interview, Ronald Reagan said: "I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism... The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."

[lanawonders]

Does this mean...Blacks can Vote....But only how someone else tell them they must Vote?

[jtreynolds2]

Go to YouTube now and watch the North Carolina public school teacher browbeat her students who supported McCain. And get used to it.

[sincity_q]

Why the ** for the word g@y?

Good old CBS... ready to stuff the nation with any politics it sees fit to but without the guts to speak plain english.

[sincity_q]

First of all, let''s clarify things here...

To wit: *** are not a minority. They are a subsegment of society that has set themselves aside from several classes of the mainstream through a sexual preference that also runs counter to what nature intended.

(NOTE: Not interested in debating the issue of natural intention. If your exhaust pipe was meant for anything but exhaust, there would be potential for something coming out of it that wasn''t exhaust.)

Now, my personal feeling is that *** should be allowed to marry. God knows that the lesson here is to be careful what you wish for because... well, you might just get it! And there is an entire generation of divorce lawyers about to wet their britches to represent you!

But I can''t buy some inalienable right to wed. Nope... sorry.

[jolsonbear]

Actually I''m glad th at Gay Marriage is being defeated in every state.....As a Gay Man (not a real American) I no longer have to pay taxes. S*C*R*E*W the USA.

[jolsonbear]

If we based civil liberties on majority opinion, Barack Obama would be riding on the back of the bus.

[hypnotoad72]

Civil Unions = Separate drinking fountains.

Posted by jcnbma1 at 01:20 PM : Nov 08, 2008
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If you say so. Now convince major religious leaders to re-write those portions of their respective religious texts that pertain to who can marry whom. I''ll get the popcorn, it should be very entertaining.