Thursday, July 1, 2010

NRO - Obama on Marriage: Bigot or Liar?

Certainly, progressives are giving Obama a pass. I would add that progressives are acting like hypocrites as well.

June 30, 2010 4:00 A.M.

National Review Online

Robert P. George


Obama on Marriage: Bigot or Liar?

Like Sherlock Holmes’s dog that didn’t bark in the night, liberals have been strangely silent about Obama’s comments on marriage.


It has become a matter of orthodoxy among progressives that those who believe that marriage is properly defined as the union of one man and one woman are guilty of bigotry.


There is a problem, however: Barack Obama has assured voters that he believes marriage to be the union of one man and one woman — not two men, two women, or some combination of more than two people. As Donald Trump rather pointedly noted after the Miss U.S.A. pageant, President Obama’s position on the definition of marriage is identical to the position stated by California beauty queen Carrie Prejean.


So what do progressives think? Has the president embraced bigotry? Or has he lied to the American people about his position on what marriage is and how it should be defined?


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