Posted by
TheChair on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:53:37 AM
Terrence Jeffrey of Human Events makes clear a constant warning theme from this blog...
a vote for Barak Obama is a vote for same-sex marriage nationally. Yesterday, Joe Biden appeared on Ellen Degeneres's show and said if he lived in California, he'd vote against Proposition 8. But Obama himself already forged the ticket's opposition-to-marriage position with his previous public statements. Here are some excerpts from
the Human Events piece, but be sure to read the whole thing.
In June, Obama sent a letter to the San Francisco-based Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club. It was read at the club's June 29 meeting and reprinted in full in the July 2 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline "Obama opposes proposed ban on gay marriage."
Yet that was not all Obama said he opposes -- or supports -- in this letter. He also declared that he opposes all state constitutional amendments that limit marriage to a man and a woman, that he opposes a federal amendmenthe wants to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act that would prevent states from being forced to recognize same-sex marriages, that , and that he wants to fully open the military to gays.
"I want to congratulate all of you who have shown your love for each other by getting married these last few weeks," Obama wrote. "I support extending fully equal rights and benefits to same sex couples under both state and federal law. That is why I support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy, and the passage of laws to protect LGBT Americans from hate crimes and employment discrimination. And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states."
To make clear that he wants no distinction in law between traditional married couples and same-sex couples -- including in laws regarding the adoption of babies -- Obama sent a second letter Aug. 1 to the Family Equality Council, a group that says it envisions "a country that celebrates a diversity of family constellations."
"We also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families," Obama told this council. "And that's why we have to extend equal treatment in our family and adoption laws."