Yep, the elderly church folk – Mittens has them locked up! The beauty of the GOP’s wedge issue strategy is that, all of a sudden, the wedge isn’t a wedge anymore! And it just isn’t effective anymore. When someone being LGBT is no big thang, it loses its divisive power. Only the folks that wouldn’t be voting for The President will be upset by it – no lost votes, and a terribly safe bet. (Might lose a small percentage of African-American religious votes, but disagreeing with one issue of the platform of the first African-American president won’t be fatal for POTUS.) It has been a blast watching the clown car unload and the GOP fracture. It’s a fascinating process, and you have to wonder where they’ll end up!

LOL! Yeah, Mittens also states that he believes in traditional marriage. Marriage should stay the way it has historically been. Guess I’d better start building my daughter’s dowry and try to marry her off to a neighbor so we can have a bigger lot in our suburban tract. Oh, and while Mitt’s at it, I guess we’d better end interracial and interfaith marriages, end women in the working world (traditionally, we should be in the home waiting with pipe, slippers and martini for The Hubby to come home), and make sure women aren’t the primary breadwinners in half or more of American households. Yeah, marriage has always been the same, why change now, right???

So glad you came by the Kitchen Table, GF. You’re a smart cookie, and I love your perspective! Hope you’ll come by again, Sistah!

It was definitely a calculated move, though Biden released the announcement a wee bit early from what I’ve read. But I think that the time-line worked, built suspense.

My 22-year old son also doesn’t think that gay is a big deal. He thought the announcement was great. He visits my brother-in-law and partner down in Florida and goes out to dinner with his friends. No biggie.

Obama’s support of gay marriage will also help him with Independents. As Biden says, “It’s no longer your father’s Republican Party.” I love that the man speaks his mind.

It certainly is interesting that the GOP continues to move forward maintaining the same position on social issues when polls have reflected that their positions do not reflect the beliefs of the majority of Americans. They must be really banking on catching the vote of the elderly church folk like my grandparents. Question is, what happens to the GOP after this base is gone?

Also, I find it interesting that the GOP’s presidential hopeful states that he firmly believes a marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman…but what about a man and 5 women??

Getting this out of the way sooner rather than later will serve the Democratic agenda as the GOP continues its insane divisiveness.