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(45,251 posts)Or by the time he sat in Rick Warren's church and opined that he believed in "contract rights" for gay people (duh?), but "when it comes to marriage, God is in the mix." Yeah, yeah, I know that, when he was running for 2012, his gay bundlers put pressure on him to evolve his thinking on that--right back to where it had been in 1994. But, it's not as though no one got hurt by his remarks during those four years. Or by the briefs his D of J filed, comparing homosexuality to bestiality and incest.
But, of course, that was when his D of J was acting totally independently of the President. So it's unfair to blame him. Not like when he told his D of J to stop fighting for DOMA in circuits where it had already been ruled unconstitutional and the D of J suddenly became obedient to the Executive, instead of independent of the Executive. So, of course, it was also fair to give him the credit then.
And he claimed only the other day that the D of J is entirely independent and he doesn't even try to influence it.
Sorry, I just can't keep up sometimes.
but, yeah. 2008. Good times.