This is how coalition building works. It feels like crap.
You may have heard of Douglas Kmiec. He's a conservative, Reagan-era legal scholar. He has endorsed Obama, and written a book about it -- and his asshole priest denied him communion as a result. Unsurprisingly, Kmiec is big-time opposed to marriage equality. Apparently he's written an op-ed for the SF Chronicle telling everyone to vote Yes on Prop 8. Nice.
You may also have heard that Obama is going on a "Faith, Family, and Values" tour, trying to convince people he is neither a Muslim nor the Antichrist (I suppose he could also be both, although didn't I read somewhere that the Antichrist is going to be Jewish?). He's invited Kmiec along.
Some people are kind of upset about this. I'm not. I already know that under an Obama administration, I'll be a second class citizen. He's already shown signs of preparing to throw us under the bus on DOMA and DODT. He doesn't need queers and he never has. He's focusing on the people he does need -- like working-class Catholics in Pittsburgh.
Here's the thing, though -- under a McCain administration, I'd be a fourth or fifth class citizen. Plus the fucker will start a war with Iran, if he lives long enough. And he won't do shit about global climate change. Under a McCain administration, we are all going to die horribly, sooner rather than later. And as I've said before in these pages, I won't need marriage equality if I'm dead.
So Obama should go ahead and cozy up to this Reaganite, who actually sounds like he has integrity, even though he wants to control my uterus and deny me civil rights. I'm sure I will come to hate Obama eventually -- it didn't take long for me to start hating Bill Clinton, after all. But I'm going to save it until after he's elected.
You may also have heard that Obama is going on a "Faith, Family, and Values" tour, trying to convince people he is neither a Muslim nor the Antichrist (I suppose he could also be both, although didn't I read somewhere that the Antichrist is going to be Jewish?). He's invited Kmiec along.
Some people are kind of upset about this. I'm not. I already know that under an Obama administration, I'll be a second class citizen. He's already shown signs of preparing to throw us under the bus on DOMA and DODT. He doesn't need queers and he never has. He's focusing on the people he does need -- like working-class Catholics in Pittsburgh.
Here's the thing, though -- under a McCain administration, I'd be a fourth or fifth class citizen. Plus the fucker will start a war with Iran, if he lives long enough. And he won't do shit about global climate change. Under a McCain administration, we are all going to die horribly, sooner rather than later. And as I've said before in these pages, I won't need marriage equality if I'm dead.
So Obama should go ahead and cozy up to this Reaganite, who actually sounds like he has integrity, even though he wants to control my uterus and deny me civil rights. I'm sure I will come to hate Obama eventually -- it didn't take long for me to start hating Bill Clinton, after all. But I'm going to save it until after he's elected.