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Krauthammer: Obama Is Now Trying to Get Away From SSM As Fast As He Can

 

Charles Krauthammer in his weekly column for the Washington Post:

"... It’s a howling contradiction to leave up to the states an issue Obama now says is a right. And beyond being intellectually untenable, Obama’s embrace of the more hard-line “rights” argument compels him logically to see believers in traditional marriage as purveyors of bigotry. Not a good place for a president to be in an evenly divided national debate that requires both sides to offer each other a modicum of respect.

No wonder that Obama has been trying to get away from the issue as quickly as possible. It’s not just the New York Timespoll showing his new position to be a net loser. It’s that he is too intelligent not to realize he’s embraced a logical contradiction.

... Notwithstanding a comically fawning press, Obama knows he has boxed himself in. His “rights” argument compels him toward nationalize same-sex marriage and sharpen hostility toward proponents of traditional marriage — a place he is loath to go.

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