It’s been a long haul, but our President evolved this week (with a boost from the Veep) to the point where he said yeah, same-sex couples should have the right to marry. The joy, nay – the GLEE! on the part of myself and my fellow queerfolks, as well as progressives generally, is understandable. A tortured position in favor of civil unions, “separate but equal” in all but name, obviously wasn’t tenable.
So he’s said it. Of course, nothing substantively changed, but as Andrew Sullivan reported late in the week (and Olympia diaried earlier today) GOP pollsters and advisors also evolved at warp speed this week. Did Mitt Romney read this memo before delivering the Commencement Address at Liberty University this morning? Maybe not, but his minions did, and perhaps that’s why he refrained from tossing more than a meatball out to this crowd that was hoping for steak tartare. Perhaps this isn’t time to toss out the quotes about “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” after all.
So on the one hand, it’s great news. But on the other, I’ve been a bit pensive about it all week, too. Zip below the elegant Cheeto to explore MFP.
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