In which we talk more about Obama’s endorsement
It’s late. You’re up. In case you’ve had Facebook on SelfControl for the past twenty-four hours, Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage today. Here is an attempt to capture the myriad of different Internet reactions.
On campus, political groups have largely spoken in favor of Obama’s endorsement. Columbia Queer Alliance put it this way:
Though we wish he had been one of our public figures willing to be a leader and not a follower on this issue, we are very happy that our president has finally joined the majority of Americans in supporting same-sex marriage.
Unable to contain his/her enthusiasm, some person on the interweb decided to make a whole tumblr in reaction to the statement! “When Obama Endorsed Same-Sex Marriage … Michelle was like “I TOLD YOU SO.”
FOX News weighed in on the debate …
As did Jezebel:
Adding to the conversation even more, Huffington Post compiled the reactions of 98 different politicians. Mitt Romney, unsurprisingly, has responded to Obama’s statement with his own: “I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.”
When Spectrum contacted a certain Shadowy Mask for a comment, he (she?) responded with his two cents:
I think that this is a an issue of states rights. I think ObaMAO should stop using the federal government into bullying everyone to do what he wants. This is not a dictatorship! How about some more freedom in the united states of America? Here at specsucks we know that the peoples say will be censored and overruled by the biased editors of spec and other similar “news” organizations.
In an addendum he continued:
But also we are not political and we welcome anyone from all walks of political life to join our prestigous organization.
Lastly, and this appeared on YouTube slightly before the POTUS said his piece, a lovely and inspiring video from actor Stephen Fry on why he’s proud to be gay.
Homosexuality is a sin. No homosexual union could ever have the capacity to be a proper God-glorifying relationship, since the relationship is based purely on lust and rebellion against the order of God. Our government should not be endorsing sinful unions.
I second the Shadowy Mask’s call for states rights and real freedoms!!
bogus dissability clmaisA female friend of mine works for a state entitlement program agency (as she puts it). Recently she told of how many welfare families have kids with some sort of disability, usually behavioral. She also described how she may take one of these kids to a doctor’s appt, etc and they display no signs of a disability.She works there because she needs a job, but despises the system and the corruption/dependence cycle it creates.Today my 15 year old daughter went to get her nails done in preparation for her first high school prom. I had to wait 10 minutes when I picked her up. There were two young women there, together probably sisters, with no wedding rings and 3-4 kids between them. I didn’t think about from where the financial support but, rather, what a pitiful childhood those kids will have with self-absorbed mothers and probably little fatherly presence in their lives.I could go on for hours about self-absorbed, entitled women between the ages of 18-35 that I’ve come across. Some of them become familiar with reality when they get older.