I find it humorous that homosexuals overwhelmingly support Obama when he is on record numerous times saying he does not support gay marriage. Of course, this being Obama and all, it may change next week because his position is fluid and the one that he finds most politically expedient will be the one he'll take, but I digress.
Anyway, Dick Cheney has once again said that he is a supporter of gay marriage and he has the right idea; it's a stupid argument for the GOP to battle against same-sex marriage when we have myriad other, more important issues facing us.
Here's Cheney:
"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former V.P. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. ... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."Exactly right. Quite simply, by banning legal gay unions, we as a nation are trampling on the rights of a segment of the population and that is unconstitutional. If laws are written so that gay unions (or marriage) are the same as heterosexual unions (divorce, alimony, shared property, etc.) then I see no reason that they shouldn't be allowed.
Now if we could only get Obama to the right of Cheney on fiscal policy and not just gay marriage, we would be getting somewhere.
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