Obama should probably resign as CEO too — CEO of the United States government, that is. He also said at the time he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. His running mate, Joe Biden, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. In a 2004 Senate debate with Alan Keyes, Obama even denied marriage was a civil right.Just a reminder.
After Obama officially changed his mind in May 2012, there was a noticeable shift in black support for gay marriage. More than 70 percent of California’s black voters supported Proposition 8 in 2008. If Obama had “evolved” (his word) faster, maybe Prop 8 would never have passed.
But Obama’s opposition to same-sex marriage was always mostly rhetorical, if it was ever sincere. (It contradicted the answer he gave a gay media outlet in 1996, which might have made him the only person in America to support gay marriage in 1996 but oppose it in early 2012.) He opposed the federal Defense of Marriage Act as early as 2008 and never supported any state-level Prop 8-style ballot initiatives.
Not so for Hillary Clinton. Her husband signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law in 1996. Most Democrats in both houses of Congress voted in favor. This legislation denied federal recognition of same-sex marriage and allowed states to enact laws like Prop 8: no same-sex marriage in their state or recognition of such unions in other states.
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Why Hillary Clinton can’t be president of Mozilla or the United States
The Daily Caller reports: