July 31, 2007
Interesting take on last weeks debate
Regarding the questions on GLBT issues, one guy was happy with no one. Except for Kucinich. He's most upset with Senator Obama's response and while I'm loathe to agree with someone who thinks Kucinich hung the moon (he was playing to the crowd), Sen. Obama's response was one of the weakest I've ever heard. Including Sister Ruth's response when a child asked her why she drank so much.
Unfortunately, among the five Democrats asked to respond to one of these two questions on Monday, only Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich failed to disappoint.None, however, offered as dispiriting an answer as did Barack Obama, so widely admired for the promise of candor and vigor he conveys in his demeanor and discourse.
Clustered alongside the now obligatory Democratic profession that equal rights must be guaranteed for all Americans, gays and lesbians included, the Illinois Democrat said, "With respect to marriage, it's my belief that it's up to the individual denominations to make a decision as to whether they want to recognize marriage or not."
Why does Obama continue to give credence to the canard that equal civil marriage laws will somehow pose a threat to the prerogative of any religious institution to determine which unions are eligible for its blessings.
Reverend Longcrier specifically asked how it could be "acceptable to use religion to deny gay Americans their full and equal rights," raising the troubling prospect that in his practiced answers Obama in fact has no real interest in being responsive to a question. The amendment that CNN moderator Anderson Cooper made to Longcrier's query, pressing Obama to explain how barring gay marriage differed from preventing interracial unions, made the candidate's non-answer even more stark.
Americans have rightly come to expect the Democrats to be the guarantors of the Constitution's separation of church and state, yet Obama, a lawmaker, editor of the Law Review while at Harvard, and a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, ignored that responsibility.
This man knows better.
And if he doesn't know his law, he surely knows his politics. Suggesting that religious institutions have primacy in deciding who can gain civil marriage rights plays directly into the hands of Christian conservatives.
Denominations? That wasn't the question and quit being an asshole, McJerky. Beside, anyone who would be impressed with your pseudo-religious crap won't be voting for you anyway... mostly because of the color of your skin.
Discrimination's a bitch, ain't it Senator?
Posted by mcblogger at July 31, 2007 09:33 AM
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