{"id":11083,"date":"2010-12-23T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:58:44","slug":"barack-obama-feelings-nothing-more-than-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/barack-obama-feelings-nothing-more-than-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: Feelings, nothing more than feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1341202\/President-Obama-opposed-sex-marriage--change-mind.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barack Obama has said that he stands by his opposition to same sex marriage but has signaled that he might change his mind in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The President told a press conference on Wednesday that he struggled with his views on the subject as he has many friends and employees engaged in strong and lasting same sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My feelings are constantly evolving&#8217;, he told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At this point, what I&#8217;ve said is that my baseline is a strong civil union that provides them the protections and the legal rights that married couples have, and I think that&#8217;s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But I recognize that from their perspective it is not enough, and I think this is something that we&#8217;re going to continue to debate, and I personally am going to continue to wrestle with going forward.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Obama\u2019s view of same-sex marriage is based on feelings \u2013 sorry, <em>evolving<\/em> feelings. I wonder if his foreign policy is based on that, too?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope he doesn\u2019t find himself eyeing the nuclear button when emotionally fraught after an overly strenuous bout of <em>wrestling with going forward. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Barack Obama has said that he stands by his opposition to same sex marriage but has signaled that he might change his mind in the future. The President told a press conference on Wednesday that he struggled with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/barack-obama-feelings-nothing-more-than-feelings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[461,1391],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","tag-barack-obama","tag-same-sex-marriege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}