michygeary:

tayloriusrex:

Obama stepped out and supported gay marriage. Now we have to step out and support him. For every independent and conservative vote he just lost, we need to make up for it with an independent or progressive vote.

I am fucking serious as fuck right now. Please don’t think this was easy for him. You’re going to have to get out there and vote in November, or this doesn’t mean shit.

If Obama is going to bat for the LGBT community then everyone in favor of gay marriage needs to go to bat for Obama.

You may feel lukewarm about him. You may not like him. But I can tell you for a certainty, his opponents do not support you. They do not have your interests in heart. And they are going to try to stop you, from getting the rights you deserve as a fucking human being.

If you want to be horrified, consider this: they took DOWN the comments section, on the FOX news page that reported on this, because it was so rife with racism and homophobia. Fox. Took it down. Because it was too disgusting.

THIS is the original title to their article, which they later edited at 4pm:

Here are some important quotes from his interview:

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point 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.”

and

“It’s interesting, some of this is also generational. You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know, believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”

In a time where a man can go on the news and say that letting women vote was a mistake (don’t believe me?), this, I feel, is something we really need to pull together on.

Please. Do not underestimate your power as a voter—politicians are counting on the fact that young people have atrocious turnout for elections, especially local ones. Donate to his campaign here. Do not wait to register to vote—you can register at rock the vote. And most of all, pass it around to your friends. To your family, to everyone you fucking know. This is important. We have to make it understood that we support the person who stands with us. If we don’t, then he will have put himself on the proverbial chopping block in the media for nothing. Supporting marriage equality has historically been political poison. No more. It needs to end here, with us. We need to be the ones to make the change happen. And we can. Yes we can.

This, this, all of this. I was just thinking about it this morning. Some people are accusing him of using this issue to get votes.

Here’s what I think.

I don’t care.

I wouldn’t care if Obama were secretly uncomfortable with the idea. I wouldn’t care if he had walked out of the theatre when watching Brokeback Mountain.

I wouldn’t care because he’s not just blowing smoke. This is the position he is taking on the issue, whatever his reason may be. At the end of the day, he is the only one who is going to actually make this policy change in favor of LGBTQ+ rights.

I wholeheartedly believe that he loves and supports the community, so it’s not an issue for me. I trust him. I believe in him. And I support him for that (and many other reasons). But there are people who don’t believe that and are accusing him of just using this issue to get votes. You know what? Even if that was true, it wouldn’t matter. Because if he is able to get marriage equality in this country, who cares why he did it? If he’s going to support the LGBTQ+ community, then he can have my vote. He can have my money. Hell, he can have my fucking first born.

Obama is the only one who will make the policy change we need. You’re not going to get anywhere good on this issue with any of the other candidates. So let’s not get caught up in parsing out his motives and just fucking vote for the guy who is on your side.

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