CommonMan said:
mrstickball said:
CommonMan said:
mrstickball said:
Compared to Obama, though, what has Bush done that was anti-homosexual? I can't think of anything that Obama has done other than look into repealing the 'don't ask don't tell policy'
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Didn't he bring up changing the constitution to include "marraige defined as man and woman" wording? He was at least supportive of it. I don't care what you think about this, that sort of thing doesn't need a freakin' amendment. The neo-cons were in power in many states during the Bush tenure and carried a lot of weight nationally as well. One of the platforms that was pushed over and over again was limiting homosexual couples rights. In Arkansas, for example, single people can no longer adopt children. This was never a problem until more recently when homosexual couples started adopting more and more children. So, you have to be married to adopt, and you have to be straight to marry so well, you have a nice roundabout way to stop homosexuals from adopting. Due to the general tenor of the national discussion during the Bush era, these type of changes were much easier.
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Didn't Clinton as well?
As for your issue in Arkansas, that is a state issue, not a federal issue. Comparatively, I could cite the legalization of homosexual marriage in MA, CT and NH during Bush's tenure as progress. In fact, the first legal homosexual marriages in the US were under Bush's presidency. So I believe your argument is totally moot.
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It's entirely possible, I'm super sensitive about this subject and I may have just been reacting to rhetoric, but the general feeling of the time seemed very unfriendly to homosexuals.
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To be fair, I don't think that there was a time period in America prior to Bush's presidency that was any more gay-friendly. Its only been since Bush that we've had any sort of legal consent to homosexual unions or marriage. I think its more perception than reality. DOMA was ratified in 1996, which was under Clinton and 85-14 in favor of the bill.
