How would you like your candidate to respond to the CA Supreme court decision?

[Solon]

I'd like Obama to say something like this:

"I support the California Supreme Court's decision today, and I implore all Americans to look at their own lives and families and realize that granting civil rights for one group of Americans secures civil rights for ALL Americans. The right to love, and the right for that love to be recognized by the state is one such civil right, as was shown in Loving vs. Virginia. As President, I would make sure that DOMA is overturned, and that all marriages are recognized on the federal level.

The benefits that are given to married couples are numerous and needed, they are there to allow people to bond in a way that allows them to live their lives together, rather than as completely separate beings. They are as mundane as allowing them to file taxes jointly to something as important as making medical decisions for each other when the unthinkable happens. Gays and Lesbian couples deserve these benefits no less than straight couples, and they shall have them when I'm President, you have my word on that."

[Jamastiene]

1. There seems to be a disconnect.

Obama has said he is against gay marriage because of his religious beliefs already. http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060605-floor_statement_5/

What you just envisioned is nice and all, but I don't see him saying anything like that at all. Reason #1 I didn't vote for him in the primaries.

[Solon]

4. I didn't vote for him in the Primaries either...

The fact of the matter is that he's the candidate of last resort, for me at least, and Hillary is not any better. Frankly, I wish it were Dennis Kucinich who's still in running for the top spot, but instead of him, we have two people who are, frankly, dipshits. I think the key here is that we need to PRESSURE these centrist assholes to move to the left, both on social and economic issues.

[leftofcool]

2. But I thought Obama didn't support gay marriage

Didn't he say he supported only civil unions?

[Solon]

3. Both Hillary and Obama had said it was a "state issue"...

Which I think is a cop-out, personally, but frankly I'm hoping both evolve on this issue, if on no other issue. Besides, this is what I'd like for him to say, not that he would necessarily say it, but hell, we can hope, can't we.