RE: Obama's church buddies on his new gay marriage stance
May 13, 2012 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2012 at 11:10 pm by libalchris.)
(May 13, 2012 at 11:04 pm)jackman Wrote: yeah, he has the tendency to try to go smooth things over after he does what he's going to do. that part doesn't bother me as much as if he wouldn't have shown his support in the first place. however, i don't think he's without balls at all. i think he's shown quite the pair and has demonstrated it plenty of times.
I agree, and the point of this thread was not to bash Obama. It's more to show the kind of influence churches have in our politics. I'd definitely take Obama's "I'm supporting gay marriage now let's try and smooth things over with the church so I can stay in office" over him not saying anything at all.
(May 13, 2012 at 11:07 pm)Annik Wrote: This was proposed along with the health care bill a while ago. I actually thought it was very fair, as it made the insurance companies pick up the slack. Wasn't good enough for the Catholics, I guess.
Ok, I see what happened