Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Same-Sex Marriage
During the Vice Presidential debate, a question was asked of the candidates by the moderator Gwen Ifill. She asked them whether or not they support same-sex marriage.
Joe Biden gave a pretty clear and concise answer. He said: “No, Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do not support that.”
That seems pretty straight forward and easy to understand. Neither Joe Biden nor Barack Obama support redefining what constitutes marriage from a civil side.
Why then did Joe Biden tell Ellen DeGeneres on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Monday: “If I lived in California, I’d clearly vote against Prop. 8.”
Now, for those of you who may not know, Prop. 8 is actually California Proposition 8. It is basically a 14-word proposal that will appear on the ballot in California that says simply: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
If Prop. 8 passes it will cause those 14 words to become law in California as an amendment to their constitution. The words were actually originally enacted in 2000 as a California statute after 61 percent of voters approved it, however, it was overturned this past May in a highly controversial decision by the courts.
What I find interesting is what Biden said to Ellen. He said that if he lived in California he would vote against Prop. 8. Now, if Biden (and Obama) were truly against “redefining…what constitutes marriage,” as he told Gwen Ifill along with the rest of the nation during the debate, his vote on Proposition 8 would be a “yes.” It would have to be. Proposition 8 is an amendment that would actually preserve the definition of what constitutes marriage…not change it as the courts have done with their ruling.
I believe this is yet another case of Joe Biden and Barack Obama saying one thing to mainstream America while supporting and telling their “friends” another.
In fact, Obama supports my claim with a letter he sent to the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club in June. In the letter he states his opposition to all state constitutional amendments that limit marriage to a man and a woman. On Proposition 8, Obama writes: “…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.”
Now Obama is a pretty smooth talker and I guess he’s able to fool some people with the words he says, but he’s not fooling me. You can’t say that you are against redefining what constitutes marriage then turn around and say you are against efforts to maintain what constitutes marriage. This makes me think that he wants mainstream American, who overwhelmingly support the traditional definition of marriage, to think that he is against efforts to change that definition while at the same time leaving it completely open for others to come along and change the definition of marriage for him.
Obama and Biden are smart enough to know they can’t tell America the truth – that they support same-sex marriage – because America doesn’t support it. Instead, they lie or deceive while in the background they do all the can to hinder the movement that would clearly establish the traditional definition of marriage as the only legal definition of marriage.
Obama clearly does not support the will of the people when it comes to defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
