Obama: The Hate-Murder of Matthew Shepphard Was Super-Important on My Evolution

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 05-23-2012, 04:41 PM

Remember Meatloaf's "Anything For Love"?...

If you listen close, you can hear Obama singing "I will SAY anything for re-election...and you know it's true and that's a fact!"...

Obama: The Hate-Murder of Matthew Shepphard Was Super-Important on My Evolution on the Gay Marriage Issue

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Really?

Let's check that timeline

1996: In a questionnaire, Obama states that he supports same-sex marriage

1998: Matthew Sheppard is murdered in a crime believed to be motivated by anti-homosexual hatred.

2004: Obama announces that he now supports a traditional definition of marriage and does not support same-sex marriage.

So... if I have this right... Matthew Sheppard's murder caused him to reevaluate his previous unconditional support for the gay marriage agenda, and oppose it?

By the way, pretty much nobody except Andrew Sullivan was yammering about gay marriage in 1996. So Obama was seriously, seriously way the hell out in front of the liberal agenda in 1996.

Then, Matthew Sheppard is murdered... which apparently spurs a reevaluation of his position and "evolves" him into the more conservative stance.

Okay.

I enjoy being lied to. It's fun. It fills my head with sense of whimsy and adventure, where anything can happen and probably will!!!!

Yay, deceit!!!!

saltwn · #2 (**permalink**) 05-23-2012, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Remember Meatloaf's "Anything For Love"?...

If you listen close, you can hear Obama singing "I will SAY anything for re-election...and you know it's true and that's a fact!"...

Obama: The Hate-Murder of Matthew Shepphard Was Super-Important on My Evolution on the Gay Marriage Issue

OK where is the link to Obama's originally saying that so I can check the context. I did already looked for one on my own and came up zero.

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 05-23-2012, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

OK where is the link to Obama's originally saying that so I can check the context. I did already looked for one on my own and came up zero.

The word "Really" (first word in the piece) has the link...

saltwn · #4 (**permalink**) 05-23-2012, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

The word "Really" (first word in the piece) has the link...

OK well maybe reading about it did in some way help him to understand their plight as in reading "Sooner" would have helped someone in the civil rights torn era.

But of course this is pure politics-visiting the boy's mother?

Sort of equivalent to an audience at Vatican for a Baptist campaigning in a Catholic district.

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