My husband just wrote this on his Twitter and to that I say, “Here, here!” (It’s not “hear, hear”, right?)

@neilmahoney “Fuck yeah DADT! Now you can fight and die for a country that doesn’t recognize your right to love one another. #touchofgrey #peedonparade”

I saw Obama do his press conference today. He’s so wrong I want to jump inside my TV and hang on to his big ears until they start to break a little - and THEN maybe he’d listen to me.

Gay marriage is a Civil Rights issue. Pardon MOI but I think it’s inexcusable that a half-black man who says he identifies as black due to the culture he’s most embraced, doesn’t get how DUMB he sounds saying that as President, man in charge, America’s Daddy - that he still thinks gays should only be allowed civil unions.

(By the way - I know when he ran for President he said that this was his belief. So I’m not acting like, “Where did this come from?” I hated it then and I hate it now. I figured since he has flip-flopped on everything else and given health insurance companies, big pharma, communications companies and the military industrial complex, everything they want - that maybe he has it in him to flip-and-flop to the gay marriage is the right thing to do side. Even as a political move. The log-cabin Republicans will push this forward before he does - I predict.)

He said on his press conference today that he has gay friends and co-workers (CONGRATUFUCKINGLATIONS - even if you DID NOT have these gay friends and co-workers, you should be able to see the “right” versus wrong in this.)

He said that they feel passionate about their right to marry and he’s going to “wrestle” with this some more.

Wrestle with this, Big O.

In North America, laws against interracial marriage and interracial sex existed and were enforced  from the late seventeenth century onwards, and subsequently in several US states and US territories until 1967.

In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, many American states passed anti-miscegenation laws, which were often defended by invoking racist interpretations of the Bible,

Most white Americans in the 1950s were opposed to interracial marriage and did not see laws banning interracial marriage as an affront to the principles of American democracy. A 1958 Gallup poll showed that 96 percent of white Americans disapproved of interracial marriage. However, attitudes towards bans on interracial marriage quickly changed in the 1960s.

Let’s be on the right side of history this time. Let’s not be the white people from the 1958 Gallup poll.