Reply #19: It's not merely his skin color that drives LGBT expectations.

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My problem with him on the racial front, in a nutshell, is that his very existence is due to an interracial marriage that large parts of the country opposed and the Supreme Court ultimately had to strike down the last of those bans in Loving v. Virginia.

When your own parents' marriage was subject to hatred and bigotry, yeah, I do expect you to know better. I certainly do not expect you to invoke states' rights segregationist rhetoric.

Now, I think we know fairly well that he merely opposes gay marriage out of political calculation (which makes it actually somehow worse in its cynicism. "Sure, I'll add to your family's misery for my own career, no problem!").

But I don't think it's racist or privileged or unfair of me to look at his background, look where he came from, and think "You know better. Shame on you." Because I know he knows better.