By the Editors of the National Review
Both Left and Right can find aspects of President Obamas policy on marriage to dislike. Their dissatisfaction is a tribute to his politically motivated incoherence not to his moderation. Most contemporary liberals believe passionately in what they call gay rights" (by which they do not mean the right of homosexuals to own property vote or bear arms). President Obama believes but not passionately and he will not advance gay causes unless doing so benefits him. He will not take political risks for them. So while he says that he favors gays in the military and opposes the Defense of Marriage Act he will not push to change either policy. He refuses even to endorse same-sex marriage. The conventional wisdom is that the advocates of same-sex marriage have the future on their side. President Obama appears to believe that this future is a long way off.
Now President Obama has brought on the wrath of liberal gay organizations by affirming the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in court. That act passed by a bipartisan majority and signed into law by President Clinton in 1996 treats marriage as the union of a man and a woman for purposes of federal law and protects states from having to recognize same-sex marriages formed in other jurisdictions.
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