“At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview in the Cabinet Room at the White House with ABC’s Robin Roberts, “I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”Great news, and the two sure things that come from this news is that every LGBT and Marriage Equality group (and the bigots on the other side) will make money off of the news and that LGBT rights will be a major presidential campaign issue. Other than that, nothing has changed.
Words are powerful, especially when they come from the leader of the free world. But as of right now they are just words.
If anything, this great news makes for more work. So get to work, you say. I say, this isn't a letter writing campaign or liking something on Facebook, this is lots of work.
As we know, it is an election year and there is no chance that Congress will do anything about this. There is no chance a Democrat in a tight race will come out in favor and there is so no chance a Republican anywhere outside of the Castro, West Hollywood, or Chelsea is supporting these words.
So yeah, this is good but nothing will happen. Now we need to get a Democrat majority in the House and a filibusterer proof majority in Senate and then maybe we can celebrate. So that is the work. Now we got to do it. Like I said, more work. And it isn't like young people vote and we can't count on the pissed off left like the Republicans can count on the pissed of fright.
Celebrate today. Celebrate something that should have been done years ago. Tomorrow, it is time to get to work.
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