Gay marriage as an externality
It occurs to me after writing my previous post that a reason Obama might prefer to keep his accomplishments on glbt rights on the downlow (sorry) is not that he wants to avoid confrontation with the right on the marriage issue. Of course it isn’t – he agrees with them on it. He wants to avoid confrontation with the left on gay marriage.
I’ll have to meditate on whether or not I think that is smart politically, but what is immediately clear is that Obama’s opposition to gay marriage might have helped him with suburban Christian swing voters, but it is not without costs. Now, he has to spend political capital on gay-friendly initiatives to avoid being derided as a repeat of Clinton’s famous hanging out to dry of gays, but because of his stance on marriage, his returns on this investment are minimal. Conservative Christians get to paint him as a gay lover, and left-liberals get to paint him as a gay-hater.
Let this be a lesson to Democratic politicians. Supporting “equal rights” for gays while opposing marriage rights is no longer the path of least resistance.
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