How can you say that: “Obama is not pro-same sex marriage, he defines from his own mouth that marriage is between a male and a female.”?

You need to listen to the earlier show Is Obama Telling the Truth About Same-Sex Marriage?

He has defined from his own pen that he does indeed support same-sex marriage.

Here is the letter that Obama sent to the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club:

Dear Friends,

Thank you for the opportunity to welcome everyone to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club’s Pride Breakfast and to congratulate you on continuing a legacy of success, stretching back thirty-six years. As one of the oldest and most influential LGBT organizations in the country, you have continually rallied to support Democratic candidates and causes, and have fought tirelessly to secure equal rights and opportunities for LGBT Americans in California and throughout the country.

As the Democratic nominee for President, I am proud to join with and support the LGBT community in an effort to set our nation on a course that recognizes LGBT Americans with full equality under the law. That is why I support extending fully equal rights and benefits to same sex couples under both state and federal law. That is why I support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, and the passage of laws to protect LGBT Americans from hate crimes and employment discrimination. And that is why 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.

For too long. issues of LGBT rights have been exploited by those seeking to divide us. It’s time to move beyond polarization and live up to our founding promise of equality by treating all our citizens with dignity and respect. This is no less than a core issue about who we are as Democrats and as Americans.

Finally, I want to congratulate all of you who have shown your love for each other by getting married these last few weeks. My thanks again to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club for allowing me to be a part of today’s celebration. I look forward to working with you in the coming months and years, and I wish you all continued success.

Sincerely,

Barack Obama

Notice that Obama uses the phrase “full equality under the law”; says that he supports repealing DOMA (which defines marriage as between one man and one woman); is opposed to measures to amend the California Constitution to block same sex marriage (even calling them “divisive and discriminatory”); and congratulates gays for “getting married”. I mean, how much clearer does it have to be? See also this report.

Funny how Palin agreed with Biden when it came to the topic of same-sex couples…

The double standards of American Jews

I agree, and she exemplifies a motto I have used when screening new hires to projects I have worked on… “Attitude and Aptitude.” Experience is good, but a good and proper attitude, combined with an aptitude for the work to be done goes a long way toward choosing the best candidate. I think of David, who as a youth had no military training and had never worn armor. But his heart was right before God, and he had an aptitude built from years as a shepherd defending his father’s flocks. It wasn’t the most experienced warrior who killed Goliath and won the day against the Philistines… it was God working through an inexperienced youth with attitude and aptitude.

The experience issue should not matter to Obama or his supporters, since it is “Washington experience” that he has criticized in this election race, admitted that he does not have, and used as an example of why he is best to lead the cleaning of the halls of Congress… because he is not tainted by the experience of Washington’s business/politics as usual. This I feel is another over the top criticism of Palin, as the lack of experience is supposed to be admirable of Obama, but a weakness for Palin. It also shows hypocrisy in criticizing Palin as a fabricated VP candidate, chosen merely to garner votes (of women). It is the experience issue that led Obama to choose Biden, which gave him more credibility toward foreign policy, and solidified support for his candidacy.

When federal judges in San Francisco ruled in 2002 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it included the phrase “under God,” Sarah Palin was not amused. Palin, who at the time was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, quickly drafted a terse letter to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper.

“Dear Editor,” Palin wrote in 2002. “San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase ‘under God’ away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words,” Palin wrote.

“God Bless America,” she concluded.